Migration is considered an inevitable effect of climate change. It could also be part of the solution.

Migration is considered an inevitable effect of climate change. It could also be part of the solution.

South of Cape Cod, fiddler crabs and marsh grass have long had a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s a different story in the North, where the harms can ricochet through ecosystems.

Why the UN Refugee Convention should be updated to protect climate migrants.

When climate change is used to explain migration, social inequality is naturalised.

If rural communities plan carefully – and some already are – they can reinvent themselves as the perfect homes for people fleeing wildfire and hurricane zones.

Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo. The Biden administration is debating how to identify and help them.

Climate migrants still tend to move to places they know or have connections to through their social networks.