Changing Climate, Changing Migration
The consequences of global climate change are affecting the way people live, work, and move around the planet. Events such as catastrophic storms, encroaching deserts, and rising seas are making some communities increasingly unlivable and posing challenges to livelihoods. There is no clear, direct line between the impacts of climate change and changing human movement. But there are indications that the warming planet is indirectly creating or altering patterns of migration. Our podcast Changing Climate, Changing Migration and related Migration Information Source special issue dive deep into the intersection of climate change and migration to separate fact from fiction and trace out the complicated ways in which climate change affects migrants, refugees, and communities—and their adaptations and other responses.
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What Brazil’s Disastrous Flooding Says about Climate Displacement Trends
When climate-driven disasters collide with weak legal frameworks and pre-existing migrant vulnerability, who bears the greatest burden of displacement — and what protections exist in South America to address it?
Migration, Climate Change, and Security in the Pacific
How does climate-driven displacement in the Pacific complicate the already fragile boundaries between humanitarian response, diplomacy, and military action?
Confronting the Ethical Questions around Climate Change and Migration
The moral case for climate displacement responsibility is more complex — and more contested — than popular narratives suggest.
Could a Loss and Damage Fund Compensate Climate Migrants?
The emerging Loss and Damage Fund represents an unprecedented attempt to assign financial responsibility for climate displacement — and the questions it raises are as consequential as the fund itself.
Moving Mountains: Climate Migration in High Altitudes
How does climate change interact with migration in mountain communities, and what does the movement of people mean for the resilience of the places — and populations — left behind?
Are the Pacific’s Climate Migration Experiments a Preview for the World?
As climate displacement moves from projection to reality in the Pacific, how are governments and legal frameworks adapting to a challenge that existing migration systems were not designed to address?
What Exactly Is Climate Migration?
When climate change shapes human movement in ways that are indirect, uneven, and hard to trace, what do researchers mean when they use the term "climate migration" — and what might that framing leave out?
Is Climate Migration a Homeland Security Threat?
Climate change is not only reshaping where people live — it is also reordering the security landscape in the countries they move to.
Trapped Populations: When Climate Migration Isn’t Possible
When climate change threatens homes and livelihoods, who is left behind — and why?
Climate Migration 101
What do we really know about climate migration—and what remains uncertain?
