Climate disasters heighten risk of conflict, says study
July 26, 2016 at 07:32 AM EDT
In a news release on Tuesday, the Germany- based Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said every conflict is borne of a "complex and specific mix of factors." The study-- which used data analysed from several decades and was published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences journal-- reported that between 1980 and 2010 around 23 percent of...