jennifer francis, we appreciate your joining us and i'll just to thank you very much. indeed. you're very welcome. people and madagascar are on the verge of starvation. after the worst, dr. baron, 40 years, the u. n's food agency says there's a desperate need for a 2 mall nutrition more than doubling in the past 4 months. lecture bryan reports this days at waste land and southern madagascar was once airable and fertile. but years of drought mean only a few patches of green remain. the lack of water has destroyed crops and sandstorms cover whatever's left and a layer of dust. the food here has nearly run out. many families are forced to eat and sick the leaves to survive. it took me in the morning, i prepare the plate of insects. i clean them up as best i can give him. there's almost no water. my children, i have been eating his plans every day for 8 months because we have nothing else to eat and no rain to allow us to harvest what we have sewn. 8 groups a warning of catastrophe, especially for children like these 2 now orphans after the mother died of hunger, the arms of wasti

jennifer francis is a senior scientist at the woodrow climate research center in the u. s. she says we're already seeing the detrimental effects of climate change in all aspects of life. places that are both warm and humid will be where we're going to see the most impacts on human life. because when you combine that humidity with high temperatures, it means that your, your body cannot get rid of the heat that it generates as part of its normal operation. and if that combination of heat and, and moisture gets too high, that's when we see a lot of people succumbing to these heat ways. but we've already seen heat waves this summer in the northern hemisphere in the western part of north america and parts of europe in the middle east. and but you know, it can, it can extend pretty far north as well up into even siberia, where last summer we saw the temperature is exceeding 100 degrees fahrenheit. for the 1st time, we pretty much spans all realms of light for talking about agriculture. making it more difficult to grow crops that we normally would grow in certain areas. and especi

jennifer francis, we appreciate your joining us and i'll just to thank you very much. indeed. you're very welcome. oh, people and madagascar are on the verge of starvation after the worst drive there. in 40 years, the u. n's. food agency says there's a desperate need for a, with mall nutrition, more than doubling in the past 4 months. alexia bryan reports this days it waste land and southern madagascar was once airable and fertile, but years of drought mean only a few patches of green remain. the lack of water has destroyed crops, and sandstorms covered whatever's left and a layer of dust. the.