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Article: Six places in the world where climate change could cause political turmoil.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)(Nepal, Indonesia, Lagos, Nigeria, United States, Arctic and East Africa)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- December 6, 2007
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Byline: Mark Sappenfield
Nepal: Unforeseen flash point
When it came to climate change fueling conflict, "Nepal was not on people's watch list," says Marc Levy, a political scientist at Columbia University. But several experts now say the country's Maoist insurgency has received a substantial boost from global warming.
During the past decade, a change in precipitation patterns and the shrinking of glaciers - events linked to climate change - have put added stress on Nepal's impoverished western hill districts. "There is a lack of irrigation," says Bishnu Upreti of the National Centre for Competence Research in Kathmandu, Nepal. As snowmelt and ...