climate refugees
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.
Joe Biden’s Immigration Policy Could Give Thousands of Climate Migrants Status
The president promised to "immediately" create a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of environmentally displaced people living in the country.
Ecological Crises Could Displace More Than 1 Billion People by 2050: Report
The Institute of Economics and Peace put out new findings highlighting the relationship between climate change, political unrest, resource scarcity, and migration.
This 8-Year-Old Quit School to Become India’s Youngest Climate Change Activist
In 2019, Licypriya Kangujam from Manipur fought the heatwaves, rain and her own tears to hold a solo protest outside Delhi's parliament house. Today, she is one of the global icons fighting for climate justice.
Melting Ice and Rising Seas Are Already Forcing People to Leave Their Homes
A quarter of the world's population lives in areas where climate change could force them to move, potentially devastating communities and economies around the globe, says a new IPCC report.
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.
Dorian Shows Us the Bleak Future of How the US Will Treat Climate Refugees
The hurricane survivors barred from coming to Florida won't be the last desperate people the government turns away.
California Wildfires Have Created Climate Refugees in a Walmart Parking Lot
California's Camp Fire has destroyed about 9,000 homes, creating climate refugees inside the state.
Donald Trump’s Grandfather Was Likely a Climate Change Refugee
A new study charts how extreme weather events, like droughts and floods, drove a 19th century wave of German immigration to North America.
Inside the Making of 'Rising Oceans,' the Third Season Premiere of 'VICE' on HBO
Producers Erik Osterholm and Alex Braverman describe the "holy shit" moments that informed their understanding of the devastating environmental and human tolls of climate change.
New Zealand Supreme Court Rejects Kiribati Man’s Bid to Become a 'Climate Refugee'
Ioane Teitiota and his family face deportation from New Zealand after its highest court ruled that the environmental threat of rising sea levels does not constitute grounds for refugee status.