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2 months, 1 week ago

Greek official accuses EU of policy failure on migration as war and climate change fuel displacement

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10 months ago

Millions of confused crabs stuck on Christmas Island

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Unusually dry weather has left of millions of crabs on Christmas Island confused as they …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Aspirational Blocks Programme can bolster climate resilience, mitigation and adaptation

Hindustan Times

As we get ready to embrace yet another smoggy winter with AQI already dipping to hazardous levels, 2023 has already witnessed various adverse climate events, from heat waves and wildfires to unprecedented monsoons and floods in the Himalayan states with large-scale loss and livelihoods, giving us a glimpse of the potential consequences that may unfold in the decades and centuries. …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The surprising upside of climate migration

The Economist

Briefing | Out of the frying pan The surprising upside of climate migration To adapt to climate change, people will move. estimate Pessimistic‡ Max estimate Climate and development scenarios Optimistic* Min estimate 0 30 60 90 Sub-Saharan Africa East Asia & the Pacific South Asia North Africa Latin America E. Europe & Central Asia Source: World Bank Parched and peripatetic …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Looking for home in an overheating world: If emissions continue, will we all be migrants someday?

Salon

Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. By the end of 2021, one in three Americans had already experienced some kind of weather disaster driven by climate change and last year alone more than three million Americans lost their homes to …

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1 year, 6 months ago

South Asia’s climate migration is a ticking bomb

The Hindu

June 5 marked the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day which was started by the United Nations in June 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Area of climate displacement hotspots South Asia houses the world’s most impacted climate displacement hotspots, including the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region, coastal areas, island nations, and deltaic and semi-arid regions. In South Asia, …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Has climate change migration already begun?

Associated Press

“The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration,” by Jake Bittle Wildfires, floods and rising seas are giving Americans a foreshadowing of what is to come, the author of a new book about the environment says — disruptions on a near Biblical scale. In “The Great Displacement,” Jake Bittle’s reporting strategy was to visit places such as Big …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Climate migration: Indian kids find hope in a new language

LA Times

Jerifa Islam stands outside her home in a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru, India, in July. A flood in 2019 in the Darrang district of India’s Assam state started Jerifa Islam, her brother Raju and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to the poor neighborhood. But the calamity started Jerifa and her brother, Raju …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world

Associated Press

TIJUANA, Mexico — Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in California, rising seas overtaking island nations and drought exacerbating conflicts in various parts of the world. Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other …

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2 years, 10 months ago

How countries should prepare for climate migration

NPR

How countries should prepare for climate migration NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Jay Balagna of the RAND Corporation about his opinion piece titled "To help climate migrants, we must first recognize them." ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We can't say for certain how many people will be displaced by climate change in the coming years. BALAGNA: One kind of policy that might …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather

Al Jazeera

Study says droughts, floods and heatwaves are fuelling climate migration as nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes. A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say. “We cannot afford to …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change could force 216 million people into other parts of their country by 2050

Daily Mail

Without immediate action to combat climate change, 216 million people could be forced to migrate to other parts of their country by 2050. And the number of climate migrants could be much higher since the report does not cover most high-income countries, Middle Eastern nations, small island states, or people migrating to new countries. The number of climate migrants could …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Cities are at the front lines of climate and migration