An estimated 1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to extreme weather and natural disasters related to climate change. The hardships of relocating and sharing limited survival ...

Climate change is one of many factors that compel people to move; it adds fuel to poor governance, inequity and inequality, and contributes to the conditions for conflict, violence, and persecution ...

Refugees and other forcibly displaced people living on the frontlines of the global climate crisis had a clear message for leaders and delegates attending the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan this week: as ...

As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, calls are growing for stronger protections for refugees and migrants forcibly displaced by climate disasters. The United Nations ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a writer, scholar and activist. His best-selling novel "The Sympathizer" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. His other works include "The Committed," the 2021 sequel to ...

For a long time, it seemed refugee law had little relevance to people fleeing the impacts of climate change and disasters. Nearly 30 years ago, the High Court of Australia, for instance, remarked that ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Monday warned that by 2050, the hottest refugee camps could face nearly 200 days of extreme heat stress per year, posing serious risks to health ...

The following is an excerpt from Environmentalism from Below. The assertion of a right to move is a central element of movements for environmentalism from below. Indeed, border abolition and the ...

While many people migrate because of social and economic inequalities, forced migration is caused by political conflicts, lack of access to food, and – increasingly – a lack of access to water. While ...