"Monsoon Begins To Take Deadly Toll On Rohingya Camps In Bangladesh"
"COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — If it hadn’t been for her neighbors, Toyoba Khatun would almost certainly be dead."
Source: Washington Post, 06/25/2018
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Climate Change Is Driving People From Home. But They're Not 'Refugees'
"More than 65 million people are displaced from their homes, the largest number since the Second World War, and nearly 25 million of them are refugees and asylum seekers living outside their own country. But that number doesn’t include people displaced by climate change."
Source: NY Times, 12/22/2017
"America’s Climate Refugees Have Been Abandoned by Trump"
"As hurricane after hurricane ravages Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast, the Trump administration has quietly walked away from a government-wide effort to help the growing number of American communities whose very existence is threatened by climate change."
Source: Mother Jones, 10/19/2017
"Meet Jane, a Climate Scientist Who Fled Trump’s Government"
"Worries about science censorship drove her from her post at the Energy Department."
Source: High Country News, 05/30/2017
Epic Mideast Heat Wave Could Be Global Warming’s Hellish Curtain-Raiser
"BAGHDAD — Record-shattering temperatures this summer have scorched countries from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as climate experts warn that the severe weather could be a harbinger of worse to come."
Source: Wash Post, 08/11/2016
"Across Africa, The Worst Food Crisis Since 1985 Looms For 50 Million"
"A second year without rain threatens to bring catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world. Donor countries, in the grip of wars and refugee crises, have been slow to pledge funds. But by the time they do, it could be too late".
Source: Guardian, 05/23/2016
"Drought Tests A Changed Ethiopia"
"On a treeless plain in eastern Ethiopia, thousands of destitute pastoralists have set up camp outside the tiny village of Fedeto. Over the past six months the camp has swelled as one of the worst droughts in decades has decimated herds, dried up pasture and made even drinking water scarce."
Source: Reuters, 02/02/2016
"Cholera Is Coming"
"The last great epidemic of Vibrio cholerae to hit Africa and the Middle East occurred from 1997 to 1998. Over 200,000 people were afflicted and some 8,000 killed as the disease spread from southern Mozambique all the way up to the Horn of Africa and into the Middle East. Now cholera is back. And this time it could be much worse."
Source: Council on Foreign Relations, 11/09/2015
"Natural Disasters Forced 20 Million From Their Homes in 2014: Report"
"Nearly 20 million people were forced to flee their homes due to floods, storms and earthquakes last year, a problem likely to worsen due to climate change, but which could be eased by better construction, a report said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 07/21/2015
"The Making of a Climate Refugee"
"How an unsuspecting farmworker from Kiribati became the brand ambassador of climate change — despite barely knowing what it was."
Source: Foreign Policy, 01/29/2015
