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Today on the Academic Minute, part of a celebration of the production's 10-year anniversary: In this segment from 2011, Kyle Meng, then a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, told us why El Niño was responsible for civil wars around the globe. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

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