died the following day.

Cao Manyun was completely emaciated, weighing less than 35 kilograms. His face was flushed and he couldn’t stop coughing. On the road back to Leiyang, Cao Manyun told his brother, “I can’t bear it any more, buy me a bottle of pesticide”.“Hold out a little longer, I’ll buy it for you after New Years,” Cao Bin said to calm his brother. After returning home, Cao Manyun was hospitalised in the Leiyang Central Hospital. The next day, he jumped out his seventh floor hospital room. At that time, eldest brother Cao Jin had just returned from being hospitalized in Changsha. He shed endless tears, but as it was so hard for him to breathe, he spent a long time inhaling oxygen before he was able toWorsening droughts will lead to more migration in Middle East

Kerry Boyd Anderson

Throughout human history, people have moved in response to changing climatic conditions. Today, anthropogenic climate change is exacerbating changes in the environment. In the Middle East, which has also experienced rapid population growth, these trends are intensifying migratory flows. The region is very likely to see growing numbers of people seeking new homes and livelihoods in different parts of their countries or even outside of their home nations.

While the Middle East is experiencing multiple effects of climate change, drought is perhaps the most pressing concern. An already arid region, many Middle Eastern countries are struggling to cope with the effects of population growth, years of mismanagement of water resources, the construction of dams by upstream countries, and