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Right now is the global food crisis. this i think is something just coming onto the agenda. it is going to be dominating, i predict, the conversation in the next few months. let me tell you why, long before vladimir putin invaded ukraine, 2022 was already set to be one of the most dangerousth worst food crises in the first post period. we had a lot of droughts around the world. latin america has two years running a very poor harvest. north africa, africa, very poor harvest. the u.s. harvest does...

The likely expansion of nato now but there are very big, immediate crises coming on top of that. the one that really worries me right now is the global food crisis. this i think is something just coming onto the agenda. it is going to be dominating, i predict, the conversation in the next few months. let me tell you why. long before vladimir putin invaded ukraine, 2022 was already set to be one of the most dangerous worst food crises in the first post period. we had a lot of droughts around the ...

Global -- now, reporting and scientific more frequent droughts in the zambia, as well as other countries, more needs to be done quickly, both to prevent the worst effects that we are living with right now and to stop it from being worse. >> all right, want to let you have a look at extraordinary video. this is the bridge in northern pakistan, as you see there, it collapsed last saturday after a local glacier melted, it is

The world weather attribution project have done a rapid analysis both based on observations on the ground and computer modelling which they say shows even with the current level of global warming that kind of rainfall, that kind of destruction, was made worse because of climate change and it could happen more frequently in this part of the world. we also know based on our reporting and scientific exposes and discovery that the southern part of this continent will be affected very badly by climat...

Climate change is here and it brought another week of extreme weather across the u.s. intense wind gusts in the midwest creating this wall of dust that stretched across parts of iowa, nebraska and south dakota and in north carolinas outer banks rising sea waters engulfed a coast sitting on the coast. also this week, giant flames burned down a wealthy community in california because of severe droughts. joining me is meteorologist derek van dam. yeah, just the devastating impacts there. take us th...

And discovery that the southern part of this continent will be affected very badly by climate change. more frequent droughts in namibia, botswana and zambia, as well as other countries in that band as well. scientists say this proves yet again that more needs to be done quickly, both to prevent the worst effects of climate change that were living with right now, and to stop it from being much worse. david mckenzie, cnn, johannesburg. coming up here on the program, u.s. womens basketball star b...

World ‘at a crossroads’ as droughts increase nearly a third in a generation

A top United Nations humanitarian official has raised concern about people going hungry in a remote part of northern Kenya

Are at risk of severe hunger. on that, we spoke earlier to michael dunford, regional director for east africa of the united nations world food programme. this is really one of the worst droughts that weve seen in the region in history, certainly the driest of the region has been in a0 years. weve had three failed rains, were desperately waiting on the current rains to deliver, and it looks as though they will underperform. were even hearing reports that the next rainy season may be a failure. we...

A rapidly moving brush fire destroyed at least 20 homes and forced emergency evacuations in Orange County, California, on Wednesday in a devastating preview of the coming fire season.