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How climate change is driving emigration from Central America

  • Written by Miranda Cady Hallett, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights Center Research Fellow, University of Dayton
A farmer carries firewood during the dry season in Nicaragua, one of the Central American countries affected by a recent drought.Neil Palmer for CIAT/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Clouds of dust rose behind the wheels of the pickup truck as we hurtled over the back road in Palo Verde, El Salvador. When we got to the stone-paved part of the road, the driver...

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