Once fruitful, Libyan village suffers climate crisis

Once flourishing and known for its figs, olives, and almonds, fields around Kabaw, located some 200 kilometres (124 miles) southwest of Tripoli, are now mostly barren and battered by climate change-induced drought. The area was once "green and prosperous until the beginning of the millennium," Maakaf recalled. "People loved to come here and take walks but today it has become so dry that it's unbearable." "We no longer see the green meadows we knew in the 1960s and '70s," added the 65-year-old,...