If we want to actively combat climate change, we must be convinced that the threat deserves action. Films such as Climate Refugees do just that.
Perhaps no major issue facing the entire world is more pressing than climate change, yet so far neither of our candidates for president have demonstrated that they are "awake" to either the impacts or the solutions.
Advocates for the victims of climate change often use the evocative terms "climate change refugee" when referring to individuals who must relocate due to climate change related impacts.
Although all of our eyes turned to the faces of the Louisiana bayous following the largest oil spill in U.S. history, we slowly adapted to Gulf Coast ...
Man is not the only creature that will need the freedom to roam in a climate-disrupted world. But it is only homo sapiens that threaten that freedom -- and the resilience and security it can offer.
ISLAMABAD — The U.S. and other countries must recognize the threat represented by the massive floods that hit Pakistan earlier this year and inc...
In Papua New Guinea's Carteret Islands, the connection between land and sea runs deep. Jennifer Redfearn's new documentary "Sun Come Up" highlights ho...
Poor is poor in any language. And whether in Biloxi or in Darfur Africa, it's the poorest who get hit by climate change hardest. My sisters from all over the world know this firsthand.
"When you've seen land being lost 30 feet at a time, in an hour, then it starts scaring you." That's Dennis Davis of Shismaref, Alaska, just one of t...
Our best science suggests that millions of people will suffer greatly in a warming world, from flooding, from fire, from disease. Many are becoming a new kind of refugee, exiles from a planet losing its resilience.
Finance conversations during the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival tend to center around distribution deals and the price of heeled boots, so discussions about economic motivators to end domestic poverty are particularly refreshing.
Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique...
There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.
