Author: Somini Sengupta
Published on: 18/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Climate Aid Projects Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say. One such project helped communities manage water stations in Niger, a hotbed of Islamist extremist groups where conflicts over scarce water are common. Another helped repair water-treatment plants in the strategic port city of Basra, Iraq. The fate of these programs remains uncertain. Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Projects have been terminated, according to court records. The burning of fossil fuels has raised the average global temperature since the start of the industrial age. This has supersized extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and storm surges worsened by rising seas. Aid worker asks not to be identified out of concern over retaliation against aid group. “In some cases, people will die of hunger,” says one aid-agency staff member. Water programs were a big part of U.S.A.I.D.’s climate-resilience portfolio. The Trump Administration’s First 100 Days JD Vance: A day after the vice president urged German leaders to end their isolation of far-right parties, Chancellor Olaf Scholz rebuked him for supporting a political party that many in the country consider to be dangerously descended from Nazism. Through the first month of his administration, President Trump has carried out a campaign of revenge and retribution that has little analogue in American history.
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