Fleeing (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Fleeing

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An estimated 1.5 million people fled Syria's drought-stricken areas, many of them to the peripheries of cities already swollen by refugees from the next-door war in Iraq.

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Stephen Starr/IRIN

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