Climate Migration

Climate Migration: Floods displace villagers in Indonesia

For years, the tide would flood Asiyah’s home along the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. Rising seas and stronger tides as an effect of climate change had destroyed her village’s crops and washed away dirt paths people walked along.

Climate Migration: Blind and homeless amid Somalia’s drought

Issack is 80, Hassan 75. The two blind men are friends and as close as brothers, gripping each other’s hands in their mutual darkness as tightly as they hold their canes.

Climate Migration: Indian kids find hope in a new language

A flood in 2019 in an Indian state started eight-year-old Jerifa, her brother Raju, 12, and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru.

Climate Migration: Kenyan woman loses nearly all to lake

A land of lakes has turned to menace in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. Water is rising in part due to climate change, and hippos and other animals are coming into contact with humans as never before.

AP PHOTOS: Living amid flood in Indonesia, unable to leave

DEMAK REGENCY, Indonesia (AP) — The rice fields are washed away. Coconut trees and chili plants, flooded with salt water, are all dead.

Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee

Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum were forced to flee Ramdaspur village in Bangladesh last year when the Meghna River flooded and destroyed their home.

Climate Migration: California fire pushes family to Vermont

PROCTOR, Vt. (AP) — Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history, the Holden family just wanted a new home.

Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world

Tens of millions of people are being uprooted by natural disasters due to the impact of climate change, though the world has yet to fully recognize climate migrants or come up with a formalized mechanism to assess their needs and help them.

Climate Migration: Honduran couple flee amid storms, threats

In 2020, back-to-back hurricanes destroyed Ana Morazan’s home in Honduras. She and her boyfriend, Fredi Juarez, fell into debt trying to repair the home after losing their jobs.

For climate migrants in Bangladesh, town offers new life

A Bangladeshi town stands alone to offer new life to thousands of climate migrants. Mongla, in the southwestern region, is located near the world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans.