Out of Africa, with Thomas L. Friedman

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman investigates whether a changing climate could also be one of the drivers of Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II. He travels to the remote corners of the African Sahel to see whether some of those migrants making the deadly trip across the Mediterranean are actually “climate refugees.”

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Years of Living Dangerously

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