A recent Nature article on climate’s impact on conflict has generated controversy in the environmental security community for its bold conclusions about links between the global El Niño/La Niña cycle and the probability of intrastate conflict. Authors Solomon Hsiang, Kyle Meng, and Mark Cane of Columbia and Princeton Universities called their study, the results of … Continue reading El Niño, Conflict, and Environmental Determinism: Assessing Climate’s Links to Instability