Changing Climate, Changing Migration
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S1E52 Climate Change Is Making People Sick. Can Migration Help?
Climate change can be devastating for individuals’ health and safety. Climate-linked natural disasters can cause physical injuries and damage health-care systems, while slow-onset changes such…
S1E51 Priced Out: Climate Change, Home Insurance, and the People Stuck in the Middle
Climate change is making home insurance more expensive and less available, as the multibillion-dollar losses caused by hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters increase in scale. Rising insurance…
S1E50 First Displacement, then Disasters: How Refugees Contend with Climate Change
Refugees are often some of the people most vulnerable to climate change. After fleeing armed conflict or persecution, many refugees end up in camps located in rural areas, with few resources and…
S1E49 Climate Displacement from Indigenous Lands
Many Indigenous people have a deep connection to their ancestral homelands that dates back centuries. What happens when climate change and other factors force them to move away from those lands? This…
S1E48 Is Climate-Vulnerable Africa Prepared for Increased Displacement?
Africa may be the most climate-vulnerable region of the world, with drought, extreme heat and storms, and other impacts affecting millions across the continent. These environmental events have forced…
S1E47 Trapped by Climate Change: The Economics of Staying or Leaving
It is not guaranteed that someone harmed by a natural disaster or other environmental change will leave their home. A complicated web of factors affects whether climate-vulnerable individuals want…
S1E46 The Young Lives Uprooted by Climate Change
Children are especially vulnerable to displacement linked to climate change. Each year, millions of young people are displaced by weather-related disasters, as schools and other services break down…
S1E45 Will Climate Change Push Some People into Statelessness?
Within the next few decades, rising sea levels could wipe some small Pacific Island nations off the face of the earth. The prospect that the physical territory of countries such as Kiribati and…
S1E44 Connecting the Dots: How Climate Detectives Link Human-Caused Environmental Change to Migration
It is no easy task to say with certainty that a particular storm, drought, or other extreme weather event causes human displacement, or that those individual events are due to human-caused climate…
S1E43 Small Islands, Big Challenges: Climate Change and Migration in the Caribbean
The small island nations that make up the Caribbean are incredibly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Many people and businesses are concentrated along the coastline, exposing them to…
S1E42 Can AI Predict Climate Migration?
Does AI have a role to play in mapping and predicting climate migration trends? In this episode of the podcast, we explore the issue with John Aoga, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLouvain in Belgium.…
S1E41 In a Climate Tinderbox, Migration Can Spark Violence
Under the right circumstances, climate-induced migration can aggravate the drivers of violent conflict. In places such as the Middle East and West Africa’s Sahel region, migration during times of…
S1E40 Climate Change, Migration & Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Floods, drought, extreme temperatures, and other climate events have devastated parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Repercussions of climate change come on top of years of conflict, which have left…
S1E39 Stories of Climate Change and Migration to the U.S.-Mexico Border
Natural disasters and other impacts of climate change are already affecting migration, but often in complex ways. This episode, we speak with Julia Neusner, a lawyer and researcher with the…
S1E38 The World Is Going Greener. What Role Can Immigrants Play?
Many countries need more workers to fill jobs in clean energy and other sectors that are critical in the fight against a warming planet. Immigrants may be one part of the solution to the challenges…
S1E37 The Reverse of Climate Migration: Should There Be a Right Not to Be Displaced amid Climate Change?
The international humanitarian protection system that was built in the aftermath of World War II does not offer protection for people displaced by climate change. In this episode, former UN Deputy…
S1E36 How We Talk about Climate Migration Shapes Treatment of “Climate Refugees”
The ways in which people talk about climate migration can affect how individuals are treated. While many activists frame climate migrants as blameless victims of circumstance and even refer to them…
S1E35 A Warm Embrace in the Cold North? Climate Migration in Nordic Countries
The Arctic region is warming much faster than other parts of the world. Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—have a reputation for being at the forefront of efforts to…
S1E34 "Coolcations” and “Last-Chance Tourism”: How Climate Change Is Upending Vacation Planning
Climate change is remaking vacations, particularly in hot months. Extreme heat can be deadly for tourists and events such as wildfires, hurricanes, and sea-level rise can devastate tourism-dependent…
S1E33 What Brazil’s Disastrous Flooding Says about Climate Displacement Trends
Floods and other fast-moving natural disasters are becoming more common and more severe because of climate change. When these disasters strike, they can displace huge numbers of people. This episode…
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