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Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Mark Newton
8th March, 2012
An evocative combination of stunning photography and beautiful prose drives home the natural wonder of the Arctic in Jeff Jones and Laurie Hoyle’s wonderful book more...
'Super vegetable garden' enables Mauritanian refugees to run agribusinesses
Amanda Fortier
13th January, 2012
An innovative gardening project along the river basin in Northern Senegal is helping hundreds of Mauritanian refugees address issues of food and economic insecurity and allowing them to integrate into Senegalese society more...
Climate refugees: Environmental Justice Foundation teams up with London cinemas
The Ecologist
14th March,2011
EJF’s ‘No Place Like Home’ film is part of their campaign arguing the case of people affected by climate change, who without international help and new binding agreements on assistance, will have no where to go and no means to survive... more...
Photo story: Bangladesh's climate refugees
Ecologist
8th February, 2011
An increase in natural disasters along Bangladesh's coastal belt is forcing communities to relocate to nearby districts and cities, many forced to live an uncertain life of poverty. more...
Climate refugee 'crisis' will not result in mass migration - new research
Ecologist
4th February, 2011
Researchers dismiss 'alarmist predictions' about hundreds of millions of people being forced to migrate across international borders because of climate change more...
The first climate evacuation: what have we learned?
Dan Box
28th July, 2009
Earlier this year, journalist Dan Box won recognition from environmentalist George Monbiot for documenting the world's first climate change evacuation, of the Carteret islands in the South Pacific. Now, he returns to his experiences to ask if this is the first evacuation of many, how should we do it in future? more...
Dan Box Blog - Paradise lost
Dan Box
14th May, 2009
Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees more...Dan Box Blog: Morning in Tinputz
Dan Box
29th April, 2009
I slept in my clothes last night, on the bare wooden floor of one of the houses the first boatload of people to be evacuated from the Carteret Islands are building for their families. It was a jet-black night in the small clearing hacked out amid the jungle, the dark broken only by our two candles and the lights of Fireflies jigging in the trees. more...
The Evacuation Begins
Dan Box
22nd April, 2009
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels more...Dan Box Blog: climate change refugees
Dan Box
5th March, 2009
An inhospitable planet? As climate change forces increasingly large numbers of people to flee their homes, Ecologist blogger Dan Box considers what 'climate change refugees' actually means more...Blog: The Carteret Islanders
Dan Box
19th February, 2009
So, the Carteret Islands are sinking, but why should you care? It’s a question well worth trying to answer; after all, the islands are a long, long way away, you are unlikely to meet the people who are about to loose their homes and when they do, it won’t change your daily life. more...BLOG: The Carteret Islanders
Dan Box
12th February, 2009
Lying off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the Carteret Islands are slowly being engulfed by a rising sea. Follow Dan Box's weekly blog as he journeys to meet the Carteret Islanders - the first people to be officially labelled as climate change refugees.more...
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The world's first environmental refugees
Dan McDougall
30th January, 2009
The disappearance of Lohachara beneath the waters of the Bay of Bengal created the world’s first environmental refugees. Dan McDougall reports on other islanders in the Sundarbans delta who have no escape from the rising ocean. Photography by Robin Hammond more...
In a climate of political chaos Zimbabwe's wildlife is being exterminated
Robin Hammond
1st June, 2008
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A climate of inequity
Mara Hvistendahl
11th October, 2007
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations. more...
1 billion homeless by 2050, says Christian Aid
News
14th May, 2007
One billion people could have been forced out of their homes by 2050 as a result of the pressures of climate change, a new report by development charity Christian Aid says. more...
Bushmen struggle to return to Central Kalahari
Clive Dennis
1st March, 2007
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis more...Members
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