Global warming not responsible for Madagascar famine: study

Paris (AFP) Dec 1, 2021

Global warming played only a minimal role in the famine that has hit Madagascar, according to a new study published Thursday which contradicts a UN description of the crisis as a "climate change famine". The southern Indian Ocean island off Africa has been hit by its worst drought in four decades. The UN's World Food Programme said last month that more than 1.3 million people there were