Increasing Desertification in China May Create Millions of Environmental Migrants

(The Guardian UK) May 18, 2009 – When the desert winds tear up the sands outside his front door, Huang Cuikun, pictured below in a dried-up riverbed near his home, says he is choked by dust, visibility falls to a few metres and the crops are ruined. Dust storms hit his village in Gansu province […]

Oxfam International Releases ‘The Right to Survive’ Report

Oxfam International has just published a new report called ‘The Right to Survive: The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century’. According to the report, current research shows that in a typical year, almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate-related disasters. This alarming number could grow by 54% to an average of […]