Student groups placed signs displaying refugee statistics along the walkways of the Arts Quad to foster discussion about the global refugee crisis, including the plight of climate change refugees. The ...
On Thursday, October 28 and Thursday, November 18, Calvin College will be hosting a pair of lectures on climate change--the first two in the "Thinking About and Responding to Climate Change" lecture ...
Of the 65 million refugees on Earth, many are being displaced by climate change in devastating numbers, according to Prof. Maria Garcia — and that does not seem likely to improve any time soon. In ...
BAKU – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, unveiled today the “Refugees for Climate Action” network, an initiative designed to amplify the voices of displaced communities in the global climate debate. The ...
“Living in a Climate Crisis World – A Call to Hope and Action," will be the topic of a Sunday, Oct. 6, talk in the science and faith lecture series jointly sponsored by First Presbyterian and First ...
Climate change is silently pushing millions from their homes ... internally displaced due to drought in Ethiopia and Somalia ...
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 ...
An international refugee expert has urged policymakers in Connecticut to involve youth and vulnerable communities of color in plans to fight climate change. Climate change cannot be effectively ...
Ahead of this year's huge Copenhagen summit on climate change, there have been plenty of alarmist headlines in America's major media outlets, many focusing on new reports which outline the chaos that ...
LONDON, Nov 30 (UNHCR) - A dress made from the heavy fabric of a tent used to shelter refugees in Jordan shimmers unexpectedly into life at the busy London train station, sparkling with data provided ...
I wasn’t prepared to be a climate refugee. Not after relocating my family from drought and wildfire-prone California to the “climate haven” of Asheville, N.C. But less than two months after we moved ...