ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine reported from Central America, Mexico and the United States to trace the potential impact of an overheating planet on human migration.
The findings, relying on a sophisticated model for predicting people's decisions to flee uninhabitable parts of the globe, make clear that without urgent action a vast re-mapping of the planet's population could lead to catastrophe.
Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform agriculture and remake the world order—and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?
The climate migration model aims to understand how climate change might lead to population shifts in Central America and Mexico, including how people may move across borders between these countries and to the United States.
Today, 1 percent of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that portion could go up to 19 percent. Billions of people call this land home.Where will they go?
In this webinar, educators explored reporting that investigates the relationship between climate change and migration.
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