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Climate Wars: Central and Northern America

Will Robson investigates the impact climate change is having on human security in Central and Northern America.

Will Robson investigates the impact climate change is having on human security in Central and Northern America.

He examines how global warming is leading to mass migration across the region, and how a spike in freak weather events is undermining basic social infrastructures.

He also hears why the avocado has become a 鈥渃onflict commodity鈥 in Mexico, and how climate change threatens the resilience of the USA鈥檚 power grid and its nuclear weapons arsenal.

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27 minutes

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Sun 8 Nov 2020 11:32GMT

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Leonard Sloan lifts a visor from the head of his wife, Maybelle Sloan, at their sheep camp in the Bodaway Chapter in the Navajo Nation in Gap, Arizona (Credit: Stephanie Keith/Reuters)

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