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“Look at the olives,” says Adlah Taha Abdallah Ali, 66, in the fields of her home village of Al Khadr, Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank. “See how they are dry … they did not get their share of water.

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Nigel Manley with one of the Korean fir trees he’s been growing for the past few years on his Bethlehem, New Hampshire farm. Eleven days before Christmas, an outdoor firepit crackles next to the gift shop at South Farm in

Photo: iLab/CSIS This transcript is from a CSIS event hosted on December 19, 2024. Watch the full video here. Katherine E. Bliss: Climate change and global health, two fairly straightforward, simple terms, but put together they can generate a fair

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Copyright Vanauatu Red Cross Society/Vanauatu Red Cross Society via AP A recent study joins a growing body of evidence that climate influences seismic activity. Three days ago, a violent magnitude 7.3 quake struck just offshore from the Pacific nation of