The Inconvenient Truth About ‘Climate Refugees’ – A Closer Look At The Data
What is a climate refugee? A climate refugee is a person forced to leave their home or country due to the impact of climate change, such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, droughts, or desertification. These individuals are displaced…
Quantifying the human cost of global warming – Nature Sustainability
Abstract The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of…
B.C. Climate News: Flooding evacuations in Cache Creek | Alberta braces for more wildfires | Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1 C:
Breadcrumb Trail Links News National Local News Here’s your weekly roundup of climate change news for the week of May 8 to May 14, 2023. The village of Cache Creek, shown in a handout photo, is maintaining a state of…
Number of internally displaced people hits record due to war, climate change – Reuters
GENEVA, May 11 (Reuters) – The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in Pakistan, according to…
Global warming is to blame for devastating East Africa drought, scientists believe – The Mirror
The devastating drought tearing through the Horn of Africa would not have happened if it wasn’t for human-driven climate change. The region has been left completely devoid of water – forcing desperate families to dig several metres into arid river…
Global warming aided drought in Horn in Africa – report – RTE.ie
A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released by an international team of climate scientists. “Human-caused climate change has made agricultural drought in the Horn…
Human-driven climate crisis fuelling Horn of Africa drought – study
The devastating drought in the Horn of Africa would not have happened without the human-made impact of the climate crisis, new science has shown. The drought has affected about 50 million people in the Horn of Africa directly and another…
In South Sudan, a new front line of climate change after historic flooding – ABC News
SOUTH SUDAN — The water came in the night, rushing into her home. And as it covered everything she owned in her hometown of Niahldiu, Nyathak took her children through the waters to the shore, waiting to be rescued. Flooding…
In Maps: What the future holds for our warming world
Climate change will affect up to one-third of the world’s population, but the impact will not be equal across countries
Harris peeks at peppers on farm with climate change in mind – The Associated Press
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday traveled down a dirt road to tour a farm outside Zambia’s capital that’s using new techniques and technology to boost its vegetable crop as she highlighted ways to secure food…
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