Climate migration fuels conflicts in Bay of Bengal region
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Military and civil conflicts could intensify along the Bay of Bengal coastline, fuelled by climate change-linked migration, land loss and displacement, researchers say. The area is seeing frequent extreme weather, which combined with its strategic, social and economic fault-lines, makes it “fertile ground” for social friction and violence, they warned. Rohingya […]
Twin threats: Climate migrants said to face greater risk of modern slavery
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Salamatu, 22, from northern Ghana, has worked as a porter in Accra for seven years after repeated flooding on her family’s farm forced her to seek a living in the capital. But she doesn’t get to keep much of what she earns. Her boss takes most of the money to cover […]
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 […]