New maps document big-game migrations across the western United States
For the first time, state and federal wildlife biologists have come together to map the migrations of ungulates across America’s West. The maps will help…
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How Climate Migration Will Reshape America
By Abrahm Lustgarten
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…
Climate change could lead to mass migration as people head north to survive
By Abrahm Lustgarten
The Earth’s temperature is expected to drastically increase over the next 50 years, which will likely force entire nations of people to travel north for…
Climate Change Will Drive People Across Borders
By Sonia Shah Photo by Loren Elliott
Extreme wildfires savaged Northern California in 2018, leaving the homeless to camp out in a Home Depot parking lot in Oakland, not far from the…
Believe It Or Not, Forests Migrate — But Not Fast Enough For Climate Change
By Ari Shapiro Photo by David McNew
We’re all familiar with migration: Wildebeests gallop across Africa, Monarch butterflies flit across the Americas … but did you know that forests migrate, too?
Climate change-influenced refugee crisis may lead to long-term settlement issues
By Matt Swayne
Computer models may reveal that climate change prompts a more nuanced circular migration pattern.
Behind the Cover: Climate Migration
By Kathy Ryan
This week’s cover story focuses on the disruptive scale of migration that may be approaching because of climate change. The photojournalist Meridith Kohut photographed an…
The Great Climate Migration
By Abrahm Lustgarten Photo by Meridith Kohut
Early in 2019, a year before the world shut its borders completely, Jorge A. knew he had to get out of Guatemala. The land was…
Climate woes growing for women, hit worst by displacement and migration
By Megan Rowling
From sexual violence in displacement camps to extra farm work and greater risk of illness, women shoulder a bigger burden from worsening extreme weather and…
50 Years From Now, Many Densely Populated Parts of the World Could be Too Hot for Humans
By Bob Berwyn Photo by Li Yang
A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows a “surprisingly narrow” human climate niche—between 52 degrees Fahrenheit to…
Extreme weather exiles: how climate change is turning Europeans into migrants
By Marta Rodriguez Martinez & Lillo Montalto Monella
Climate change could leave you homeless overnight – right here, in Europe. Flash floods, mudslides and wildfires triggered by heatwaves are among the extreme weather…
The climate crisis is now a bigger threat to humanity than war
By Liam Pritchett
The ongoing climate crisis is causing more displacement and forced migration—through climate change-related natural disasters—than conflict and violence.
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume…
The Great Climate Migration
By Abrahm Lustgarten 7/23/20
This article, the first in a series on global climate migration, is a partnership between ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center.
Climate Change and Migration
The topic of climate change and migration attracts a strong following from the media and produces an increase in academic literature and reports from international governmental institutions and NGOs.
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Is the World Ignoring Climate Change Migrants?
By Reiss Edwards 2/27/20
There are millions of people on this planet today already directly affected by climate change. While large swathes of the global population are currently buffered from the immediate impacts of climate change on their daily…
How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email
By Lauren Sommer, Mose Buchele 2/18/20
Winters are warming faster than other seasons across much of the United States. While that may sound like a welcome change for those bundled in scarves and hats, it’s causing a cascade of unpredictable impacts…
Climate Change Is Altering Migration Patterns Regionally and Globally
By Jayla Lundstrom 12/3/19
Since at least 2014, a growing number of asylum-seekers from Central America have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. While the response from the Obama administration raised genuine protection concerns, the Trump administration has taken the…
Climate Change Is Already Driving Mass Migration Around the Globe
By Jeff Turrentine Photo by Masfiqur Sohan 1/25/19
Given the oversize role that migration plays in our current political discourse, you’d think there would be more emphasis on the one factor military and security experts believe will affect future migration patterns more than…
