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As part of Weather Break’s ongoing coverage of ways in which climate and climate change figure into some of the struggles going on in various parts of the world, today we are taking a look at the challenges facing the indigenous people of some of the [...]

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Recently on Weather Break, we inaugurated a new series of episodes that we are calling “Climate and Conflict”.  From time to time here on our show, we’re going to be talking about the ways in which climate and climate change relate to past and ongoing disputes [...]

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Today on Weather Break we are kicking off a new series of episodes that we are calling “Climate and Conflict”.  From time to time here on the show, we’re going to be taking a look at the ways climate and climate change factor into disputes going [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 635 of Weather Break.
Seventy years ago this month, the Soviet Union and Finland were locked in a strange little conflict that has come to be known as the Winter War.  Hostilities between the two countries had been brewing for quite a few decades leading up to the war.  The [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 607 of Weather Break.
As part of Weather Break’s ongoing “Climate and Conflict” series, today we’re taking a look at the simmering conflict in East Africa about the deforestation of the Mau Forest region of Kenya.  There are some legitimate scientific reasons to think that as rural squatters in this [...]

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