climate migrants
The Climate Crisis Is Forcing Women and Girls to Sell Their Bodies
A family fell on such hard times after a cyclone that when a man offered their daughter, 17, a job, they agreed. They later learned she was forced into the sex trade.
‘Like a War Zone’: Climate Change Is Displacing Thousands Within North America
Fires have already decimated and gentrified cities in the U.S. Canada isn’t far behind: Tens of thousands have fled their homes because of fires since 1980, putting pressure on host communities.
Activists Are Sharing Land In Vermont With People Escaping Climate Disaster
As heatwaves rise across the US, mutual aid organizations are building a pipeline to help a new generation of climate migrants.
Man Allowed to Stay in France Because Pollution Could Kill Him
A French court overturned a man's deportation order after acknowledging the air in Bangladesh could fatally worsen his asthma. The decision is likely the first of its kind.
Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They'll Go
The climate crisis has already created millions of invisible refugees and could create up to 1.5 billion more in the next 30 years. But under international law no country is obliged to take them in.
Siberia Could Become More Habitable Due to the Climate Crisis, Scientists Find
The climate will become milder across Asian Russia by the 2080s, making it way easier to live there.
More Than 75 Percent of Earth’s Land Areas Are ‘Broken,’ Major Report Finds
Once-productive lands have become deserts, are polluted, or deforested, putting 3.2 billion people at risk.