climate change refugees
UN Declares That Climate Change Refugees Can’t Be Sent Back to Their Home Countries
Considering tens of millions of people in poorer countries could be displaced by climate change in just a few decades, this is a landmark decision.
Watch This Animation Film About Kolkata’s Terrifying Future
Filmmakers Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and Kalp Sanghvi want to show that our cities are not going to be swallowed by the sea in one Hollywood-style mega-tsunami, but slowly through hundreds of smaller events.
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.
These Native Americans Might Be the Country's First Climate Change Refugees
The Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe has lived on the island since the 1820s — but sea level rise and coastal erosion has gobbled up 98 percent of the land on which they reside.