Climate Migration Needs Personal Stories
Reporting personal stories illustrating the impacts of climate change bears importance beyond feeding reader interest or even good journalism practice. Personal stories give a human...
Climate change is forcing some villages to move. What is the government doing to help? | Alaska Insight
Lori Townsend talks with Jocelyn Fenton, Transportation and Infrastructure Protection Program Manager for the Denali Commission and Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer, Senior Project Manager for the...
Alex Domash: Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes
While the US closes the doors on climate migrants from abroad, it must acknowledge that the problem has already come home.
Op-ed: Why American climate refugees could bring hope, prosperity to Indiana
The Great Migration of 6 million Black Americans fleeing the Jim Crow South The Dust Bowl journey of 2.5 million people headed west from Oklahoma,...
Capturing the Faces of Climate Migration
A Times Magazine series examines how climate change will force millions worldwide to move. Recently, Meridith Kohut photographed people on the front lines of this...
How Climate Migration Will Reshape America
August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air-conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the...
Louisiana’s population is already moving to escape climate catastrophe
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, St. Tammany parish was a rural, sparsely populated corner of southeastern Louisiana best known for sawmills and a...
Are We Thinking About Climate Migration All Wrong?
Apocalyptic predictions may grab our attention, but they can also stoke xenophobia and miss the full picture of what’s happening on the ground