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El Nio could leave 4 million people in Pacific without food or drinking water
2015-10-11 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two dozen people have already died from hunger and drinking contaminated water in drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, but the looming El Nio crisis could leave more than four million people across the Pacific without enough food or clean water. The El Nio weather pattern when waters in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean become warmer, driving extreme weather conditions may be as severe as in 1997-98, when an estimated 23,000 people died, forecasters believe. In Papua New Guineas Chimbu...
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