Madagascar Faces One of the World's First Climate Change Famines

As the African island nation experiences a food-security crisis driven by global warming, researchers say it is an alarm bell for the world

The cracked red earth and sunken eyes of gaunt children, their bellies swollen from acute malnutrition, bear witness to the devastation being wrought by Madagascar's worst drought in four decades.

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