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Arkansas Climate Refugee Report Featured on Weather Channel's "United States Of Climate Change"

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published December 4, 2017 at 11:07 AM CST

courtesy: The Weather Channel

An excerpt from "Awaiting a Wave"

The Weather Channel is producing a series of online climate impact reports from all 50 states titled the “United States of Climate Change.” So far, 33 states have submitted stories, including Arkansas. We learn how award-winning documentary producer Dale Carpenter collaborated with noted cartoonist Nate Powell on “Awaiting a Wave,” which profiles the beginnings of a Marshallese climate refugee crisis.

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Jacqueline Froelich

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.

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