Cheddar Explains: How Climate Change is Driving Migration
Cheddar News reporter Chloe Aiello explains how climate change is driving migration, particularly in Central American countries. "There are two major ways that climate change is driving migration in Central America. Extreme weather and changes in rain and patterns that have impacted crops," she said.
The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high, the latest in a series of climate-change extremes that alarm but don't surprise scientists.
The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.
