by Alex Randall | Jan 14, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Alex Randall Image: “A Cry for Those in Peril on the Sea” (CC BY-NC 2.0) by UNHCR Photo Finding photos to illustrate stories about migration and climate change is difficult. It’s easy to choose images that don’t accurately represent the kind of human...
by Alex Randall | Nov 12, 2014 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Get our round up in your inbox. Sign up on the front page. Trapped Populations – Hostages of Climate Change “When a natural disaster strikes, people are sometimes left with no choice but to leave the areas affected. Yet, for some, even this option might not...
by Alex Randall | Sep 3, 2014 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Get our round up in your inbox. Sign up on the front page. The Age of Survival Migration “”Survival migration” is not a reality show, but an accurate description of human mobility fuelled by desperation and fear… More than 52,000 children —mostly...
by Alex Randall | Aug 13, 2014 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Get our round up in your inbox. Sign up on the front page. What really happened in New Zealand? This week lots of news outlets claimed that New Zealand created the first “climate change refugees” by granting refugee status status to a family from Tuvalu. This is not...
by Alex Randall | Aug 6, 2014 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Get our round up in your inbox. Sign up on the front page. Tuvalu climate change family win NZ residency appeal “A Tuvalu family has been granted New Zealand residency after claiming it would be affected by climate change if it returned home. It is the first...
by Alex Randall | Mar 31, 2014 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
In the run up to the release of the IPCC’s fifth assessment a number of headlines suggested that the report would reveal dire predictions about human displacement and migration. The headlines suggested that millions of people could be on the move. With the...
