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An invisible toxin has appeared in shellfish that are part of the fabric of Native Alaskan life.

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How Warming Waters and Toxic Clams Threaten Native Alaskans

“If you can’t gather shellfish then you’re going to starve.”

By Zoya Teirstein
A swarm of locusts in Samburu county, approximately 186 miles north of Nairobi, Kenya, on January 22.

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How Climate Change Helped Spawn an East African Locust Crisis

Pictures from the ground show an insect storm of biblical proportions.

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