The BBC has obtained first-hand accounts from migrants who say they’ve been illegally deported from the European Union by Polish border troops. Close to the border between Belarus and Poland, the BBC…
In the six years since the Paris agreement, the climate crisis has rapidly accelerated. From catastrophes to slow transformations of familiar landscapes, lives everywhere have been upended
In the last few years, hurricanes and flooding have devastated parts of the American south. Smoke-billowing wildfires have torn through millions of acres of the west coast. In the south-west, people…
From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many.
Throughout the 2021 United Nations climate change conference,…
In the last decade, more than 40 million children have had to flee their homes because of conflict and the climate crisis.
To raise awareness about the hardships they experience, but also the…
Populations in flood-prone regions is increasing, with 57 countries especially susceptible
From Germany to New York City, this summer has demonstrated the destructive force of floods. Now, a new…
New research points to ways migrant-friendly cities with low-cost housing and job opportunities are helping those fleeing the effects of climate change.
Bangladesh faces a worsening climate…
TUESDAY 20 April 2021 (New York, New York USA and Libreville, Gabon). The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) today announced…
Kenya has given an ultimatum to the UN refugee agency to present a plan over the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma camps housing more than 400,000 people.
Terrifying, shocking, a rejection of…
Beating the anti-immigrant drum does nothing to help climate action.
Exaggerated predictions for future flows of people have long formed the core of the anti-immigration playbook. When you add the…
The world's largest humanitarian network warned Wednesday that urgent international action is needed to address the rising risk of climate-related displacement, highlighting data that shows disasters…
A new animation from IIED – the second in a three-part series of animations on loss and damage caused by climate change in the least developed countries – shows the devastating loss and damage…
Several times in recent years, migrants trying to cross between Djibouti and Yemen have been thrown into the sea.
Smugglers threw 80 migrants into the sea between the Horn of Africa and the…
Focus must be on justice for those fleeing impact of extreme weather events, says new scientific adviser to Vatican.
The pope’s newly appointed scientific adviser said the coronavirus pandemic has…
Call for world leaders to act in wake of French extradition case that turned on environmental concerns.
Air pollution does not respect national boundaries and environmental degradation will lead to…
When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of thousands of rural residents were forced to abandon their lands and livelihoods due to one of the…
On December 4, about 1,600 Rohingya traveled across the Bay of Bengal in seven navy boats from Chattogram to Bhasan Char. Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 families to the island.
The move poses…
The frequency of natural disasters is making life in rural areas increasingly difficult, pushing inhabitants into city slums.
The house Faruk Hossain grew up in has, for the last six months,…