Climate-driven migration has been deemed a major threat in public discourse and academic research, but comprehensive studies that take into account both environmental and social factors globally have ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated, through multi-agent simulations in a two-dimensional space, that the combination of environmental variability and human migration may foster the ...

When the volcanic island of Surtsey rose from the North Atlantic Ocean in 1963, it offered scientists a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to observe how life takes hold on brand-new and barren land. For ...

For several months of the year, residents of wildfire-prone areas know they should expect poor air quality. They put on masks, stay indoors when it gets bad and avoid breathing in smoke or fine ...

Climatic factors are a major driver of migration, with the World Bank estimating that some 143 million people could be internally displaced in only three regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and ...

The relationship between migration and the environment is not new. From the mid-19 th century Great Irish Famine to the early 20 th century Dust Bowl, we have many examples in history of people ...

Population and Environment, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Sep., 2007), pp. 25-38 (14 pages) Do changes in environmental security that result from declining access to forest resources shape labor migration in a ...

As climate change accelerates, it will become increasingly untenable to reduce US immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security. Migrants in custody at a US Customs and Border ...

With the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, the world is focused on the consequences of a climate crisis and how we can still change course. Yet while climate-driven migration has been ...