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Entries Tagged as 'Climate and Conflict'

Classic Weather Break – Climate and Conflict: Drowning Islands

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments

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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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Classic Weather Break – Climate and Conflict: Iraq, Syria and Turkey

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments

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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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Classic Weather Break – Climate and Conflict: Environmental Refugees

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

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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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The Winter War

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Climate and Conflict: Kenya’s Watertower

October 20th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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