The effects of climate change on people’s health are coming into alarming focus across the global south.
People are dangerously hungry in the Horn of Africa after a multiyear drought decimated crops and starved their animals. In Pakistan, unprecedented floods cut off people’s access to essential medicines. Malawi also suffered from floods that have unleashed a lengthy cholera outbreak in the country.
How to prevent these health crises — or the climate catastrophes that trigger them — is less clear.
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Andrew Green@_andrew_green
Andrew Green, a 2025 Alicia Patterson Fellow, works as a contributing reporter for Devex from Berlin.
