As El Niño Bears Down, a Small Hospital in Chad Offers Lessons in Climate Resilience

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In Chad, a small hospital in Ngouri provides insights into climate resilience amid the advancing Sahara Desert. Rising temperatures linked to the El Niño phenomenon are increasing heat stress in this vulnerable region.

Situated on the edge of the advancing Sahara Desert, Ngouri in western Chad is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to climate change. Heat is already rising in the region as the El Niño advances globally, with hotter sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean driving up land temperatures and triggering […]