Slideshow: Women are the faces of climate change

If climate change has some early victims, they are likely women

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A woman is pictured in Kenya.

Lynn Johnson/Ripple Effect Images

In poorer parts of the world, women are the ones who fetch water, grow food and more. As the climate changes, their lives are changing for the worse. Female photographers with Ripple Effects Images are documenting the women and their stories, in the slides below and in films ranging over AfricaIndia and Peru.