Reporting for this article was supported by a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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Climate change has given rise to a resurgence of child marriage in northern Kenya in the last five years. Increasingly frequent droughts and a plague of locusts linked to climate change have depleted water and grazeland, and the livestock that are the economic backbone of pastoralist communities like Bubisa who are dying of hunger, thirst and disease. To cope, desperate families are increasingly pulling their daughters from school and marrying them off in exchange for dowries—typically comprised of new clothes, drums of fresh milk and several camels.