Hot Days See More Armed Conflict:
When temperatures increase conflicts do as well, by about 30 percent across East African nations, according to a recent study that compared climate and other factors to local as well as national conflicts. The authors of the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reviewed events listed in the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which tracks all types of conflicts from large-scale acts of war to local fights over farmland. They found less conflicts arose on rainy days, but a lack of rain did not change the average conflict rate unless it was coupled with an increase in temperature. via LATimes
