New Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Friday he was acutely aware of the scale of France’s financial and political problems, comparing the deficit to crossing the Himalaya mountains.

High in the Himalaya, a desert is turning green ... their descendants won’t become climate refugees. “We in the mountains are minorities, not just ethnically but climatewise,” he says.

writing and / or diagrams to explain the connection between climate refugees in Dhaka, flooded land in low-lying Bangladesh and glacial melt in the Himalayas. “Meltwater from mountain glaciers ...