Climate change ’cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises’
Climate change
was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian
disasters last year, according to analysis of more than a million online
news stories.
was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian
disasters last year, according to analysis of more than a million online
news stories.
Whole populations were affected by food crises in countries ravaged by by drought and hurricanes such as Ethiopia and Haiti, yet neither crisis generated more than 1,000 global news stories each.
In Madagascar,
more than a million people went hungry as corn, cassava and rice fields
withered under drought and severe El Niño conditions. Almost half the
country’s children have been stunted, but their suffering sparked few
headlines.