by Alex Randall | Jan 22, 2016 | frontpage, Moving Stories
Syria, climate change and migration Our resources exploring the complex connections between the crisis in Syria and the impacts of climate change Syria and climate change: did the media get it right? During 2015 the media started connecting climate change with the...
by Alex Randall | Oct 14, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Resources, Sea level rise
Credits: Music: Chris Zabriskie, Creative Commons. Image: Luigi Guarino, Creative Commons Alex Randall is the project manager of the Climate Change and Migration Coalition. Read and watch next… Climate, drought and conflict in the Horn of Africa A new drought...
by Alex Randall | Aug 6, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Syria
Are any of the refugees attempting to cross the channel from France to the UK fleeing climate change? The short answer is probably not. But the New Scientist ran an Op Ed arguing that the “chaos” in Calais is “a taste of what a warmer world may bring”. The piece...
by Alex Randall | May 29, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Europe / Med
Explaining complex global trends on Twitter is always difficult. Barak Obama proved yesterday that being the president of the US doesn’t make it any easier. He tried to express the complex relationship between climate change, human movement and conflict in a 140...
by Alex Randall | Mar 18, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Using data from Google News, we have found that while the total amount of reporting on climate change is decreasing, the proportion of those stories that mention migration is increasing. Read on to find out why. Statistics are a notoriously controversial topic when...
