Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast'

Severe droughts and floods have had a devastating impact on the island’s rural poor, who are reliant on small-scale farming or fishingAngenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them – twice.Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers “things being