Climate change could create 63 million migrants in South Asia by 2050
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple in three decades if global warming continues on its current path, researchers warned on Friday. Nearly 63 million people could be forced from their homes […]
Caught between climate and virus threats, migrants have no safe place to go
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Ali Mohammad, a 50-year-old Afghan nomad, lost most of his sheep to a harsh drought in 2018. The following year, his home was destroyed by floods that also killed his son and two daughters. These days he lives in a camp for displaced people in Herat province, with his surviving teenage […]