A new study led by the INGENIO Institute in Spain has found that climate change – in combination with the socio-economic characteristics of various regions - influences the likelihood and duration of armed conflicts in Africa. Moreover, the experts discovered that a prolonged increase in temperature and precipitation rises the probability of conflict even beyond the affected areas by four to five times, particularly in populations up to a radius of approximately 550 kilometers. The researchers used a negative binomial regression mathematical method on data from the...