High food prices in Egypt and climate change
The World's environment editor Peter Thomson explores the possibility that climate change may be contributing to the unrest in Egypt. Egyptians are angry about high food prices, food prices are up in part because of last summer's devastating heat wave in Russia, and many believe that in turn was linked to climate change.
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