Fiji leader invites climate-hit Kiribati residents to relocate
Fiji's president has invited residents of Kiribati to move to his country if rising seas caused by climate change swamp their Pacific homeland, reports said on Thursday.
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Pacific islander fails in bid to be first climate refugee
A Pacific islander whose homeland is threatened by rising seas failed in an attempt to become the world's first climate change refugee Tuesday, with a New Zealand judge dismissing his case as "novel" but "unconvincing".
Parched Jordan to tap ancient aquifer
Jordan, one of the world's 10 driest countries, said it will start pumping water from a 300,000-year-old southern aquifer on Thursday to the capital and other cities to help them meet high demand.
Nobel Price of ecology
Because grassroots environmental heroes too often go unrecognized, Goldman prize help them to be known.
Urgent CO2 cuts may spare millions hardship: report
Tens of millions of people may be spared droughts and floods by 2050 if Earth-warming carbon emissions peak in 2016 rather than 2030, scientists said on Sunday.
‘Open your eyes’: typhoon-hit Philippines tells climate meet
The Philippines urged bickering UN climate negotiators in Doha on Thursday to take heed of the deadly typhoon that struck the archipelago this week and wake up to the realities of global warming.
South-north migration
The migrants only represent a small part of the world’s population: barely 3 %. In spite of this relatively low proportion, migration is still a hotly debated political topic in the West.
Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat
The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate islanders under threat from rising sea levels.
Polar bear’s epic nine day swim in search of sea ice
A polar bear swam continuously for over nine days, covering 687km (426 miles), a new study has revealed.
Sun Come Up (Trailer)
Bande annonce de Sun Come Up, documentaire sur l”évacuatrion des îles Carterts Sun Come Up is a lyrical documentary following the relocation of some of the world’s first climate change refugees, the Carteret Islanders. Source: Jennifer Redfearn
Biggest relocation in China since Three Gorges
China's growing thirst for water is driving one of the world's biggest mass relocations, with 440,000 people leaving their homes to make way for a huge man-made canal project to channel water to drought-prone Beijing.
Global Warming Means More Mexican Immigration?
Disputes over illegal Mexican immigrants are already heating up in the United States, thanks in part to a new Arizona immigration law.
Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland
Panama (Reuters) - Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands of indigenous Panamanians to leave their ancestral homes on low-lying Caribbean islands.
GLOBAL: IDP numbers peak at 27 million, says new report
At least 6.8 million people were displaced last year, mainly by long-running conflicts, pushing the number of those forced to live away from home to 27 million - the highest since the mid-1990s, a new report states.
Disputed Bay of Bengal island ‘vanishes’ say scientists
A tiny island claimed for years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say.
François Gemenne: climate change as a risk for cultures and identities
François Gemenne François Gemenne, researcher at the IDDR, explains some of the psychological, social and cultural consequences of climate change. He says:’One must not forget that it is not just a territory that disappears, not just houses and the [...]
Kiribati – A Climate Change Reality
Les îles Kiribati sous la menace du changement climatique. UNDP Boobu Tioram, a resident of the Pacific island of Kirabati, took time out from reinforcing a seawall in front of his newly built house to speak with UNDP about what
Mohamed Aslam: Climate change and the Maldives
Mohamed Aslam Mohamed Aslam, Minister of the Environnment for the Maldives tells us: “We may be among the first to be wiped off the map of the world, but make no mistake that we will not be the last” Source:
Environmental refugees
Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, in the Republic of Kiribati were the first atolls flooded by global warming. They were in the Pacific Ocean and disappeared beneath the water in 1999. But they were uninhabited. As sea levels are predictably going