Climate Change Refugees

Water Enough for All?

Carl Safina | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Food Production, Climate Change Refugees, Water Shortage, Nitrogen, Food Shortage, Infant Mortality, Low-Water-Table-in-India, The Green Revolution, Green News
Carl Safina

The Green Revolution was accomplished largely by doubling the amount of irrigated land. Hundreds of millions of wells now reach into the earth like straws in a thick drink on a hot day. But as with many things, we're taking more water than we're getting.

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The Next 'Major Driver Of Migration'

AP | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Video, Climate Change Migration, Environmental Migration, Environmental Refugees, Climate Change Refugees, Asian Development Bank, Environmental Migration Climate Change, Climate Change, Ap, Green News

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Asian Development Bank is warning countries to prepare for influxes of people fleeing natural disasters as climate ch...

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50 Million Environmental Refugees By 2020, Experts Predict

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Warming Refugees, Climate Change, Eco Refugees, Climate Change Refugees, Environmental Refugees, Green News

This past week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), experts warned that, "In 2020, the UN has pro...

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Report: Climate Change Could Displace 200 Million People

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Warming Refugees, Climate Refugees, Climate Change Disasters, Global Warming Disasters, Climate Change Refugees, Climate Change, Climate Change Displacement, Climate Disasters, Climate Displacement, Refugees International, Global Warming Displacement, Green News

ISLAMABAD — The U.S. and other countries must recognize the threat represented by the massive floods that hit Pakistan earlier this year and inc...

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Climate Change Displacing Thousands

LA Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Sub Saharan Africa, Africa, Melting Glaciers, Somalia, Water, Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, Ice Pack, Sea Levels, Kenya, Dadaab, Green News

Africa is already home to one-third of the 42 million people worldwide uprooted by ethnic slaughter, despots and war. But experts say climate change i...

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