This week’s article was about how climate change has been affecting the Kariba damn in Lake Kariba, Zambia. This specific damn has always been a seemingly limitless source of electricity to Zambia and it neighbors but things have been changing. Over the last server months, a severe drought that has been magnified by climate change has cut water levels to record lows. The damn is producing so little power that blackouts have been occurring and hurting the nation’s businesses. The problem is that for the past decade, Africa has been seeing much growth, but this drought is crippling multiple economies so bad that they have to reach out to the International Monetary fund for help. After seeing this issue, even David Kaluba, The coordinator of the government’s Interim Climate Change Secretariat said climate change is causing major issues in Zambia. In addition, the problem will not stop here. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change, Africa is expecting to warm up faster than the global aver over the next decades. This means that Zambia is going to need to find new ways to produce electricity for its ever growing population.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/world/africa/zambia-drought-climate-change-economy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fearth&action=click&contentCollection=earth&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront