Climate Change and Me: Professor Jennifer Leaning - Episode 4

Five scientists, working in different parts of the world, bear
witness to some of the dramatic changes to our planet that have
occurred in their lifetimes, as the global climate warms.


4. In May 2004, Professor Jennifer Leaning of Harvard
University's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, led a
two-person human rights investigation into the reported
widespread attacks and killings against agrarian villagers in
Darfur, in Western Sudan. The villagers became refugees in
neighbouring Chad. Jennifer Leaning explains how this trip lead
her to realise that climate change has a crucial part to play in
human migration.


Produced by Geraldine Fitzgerald for the BBC Radio Science Unit.
First broadcast on Thursday 24 May, 2018.