Climate Migration

Hyancinth Charm Garing, left, and husband Jeremy, right, play with their month-old daughter inside their home at a new community for victims of super Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, central Philippines on Sunday Oct. 23, 2022. Garing and his family settled at a relocation site three years ago after their village was wiped out when the super typhoon struck in 2013, killing six family members and his year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Climate Migration: Filipino families to flee amid typhoons

Nearly a decade after one of the country’s deadliest disasters, families in the Philippines are still adjusting to their new reality.
 
Gallons of water for human consumption are transported on passenger boats to serve communities located on the islands of the Bailique Archipelago in the district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. The Amazon River discharges one-fifth of all the world’s freshwater that runs off land surface. Despite that force, the seawater pushed back the river that bathes the archipelago for most of the second half of 2021, leaving thousands scrambling for drinking water. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Climate Migration: Açai growers flee salty Amazon water

 
Lights shine in Leh in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Konchok Dorjey gave up his pastoral life in search of a better future for his family. He sold off his animals and migrated to an urban settlement in the outskirts of Leh. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Climate Migration: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh

 
Ned Ahgupuk and girlfriend Kelsi Rock, stand for a photo with their 1-year-old son Steve Rock-Ahgupuk while strolling along the beach on the Arctic Ocean in Shishmaref, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. "We've been here all our lives," said Ahgupuk. He said climate change is a concern but he won't leave the island. "Everyone is like a big family caring for each other." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

AP PHOTOS: Alaska village still home despite climate threat

 
The Rev. Anna Silco, a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with her husband, Aaron, interacts with children while showing them mustard seeds during a Sunday service in Shishmaref, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. The tight-knit, resilient community continues to maintain their traditions and celebrate birthdays, baptisms and graduations centered around their homes, the local school and one of the world’s northernmost Lutheran churches. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Climate Migration: Alaska village resists despite threats

 

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People walk on a path near abandoned homes in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, July 31, 2022. Scientists say parts of the island will be entirely lost to the sea in the coming years. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Climate Migration: Floods displace villagers in Indonesia

For years, the tide would flood Asiyah’s home along the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. Rising seas and stronger tides as an effect of climate change had destroyed her village’s crops and washed away dirt paths people walked along.
 
Mohamed Kheir Issack, 80, right, and and Issack Farow Hassan, 75, stand outside Issack's shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The two blind men are friends and as close as brothers, gripping each other's hands in their mutual darkness as tightly as they hold their canes. Near the end of their lives, the most alarming drought in more than half a century in Somalia has stripped them of their animals and homes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Climate Migration: Blind and homeless amid Somalia’s drought

Issack is 80, Hassan 75. The two blind men are friends and as close as brothers, gripping each other’s hands in their mutual darkness as tightly as they hold their canes.
 
Jerifa Islam stands outside her home in a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. A flood in 2019 in the Darrang district of India's Assam state started Jerifa Islam, her brother Raju and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to the poor neighborhood. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Climate Migration: Indian kids find hope in a new language

A flood in 2019 in an Indian state started eight-year-old Jerifa, her brother Raju, 12, and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru.
 
Winnie Keben sits on her bed at Meisori village in Baringo County, Kenya, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Keben lost her leg to a crocodile attack, and that accident plus the loss of her home to rising water drove her and her family from their village. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Climate Migration: Kenyan woman loses nearly all to lake

A land of lakes has turned to menace in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. Water is rising in part due to climate change, and hippos and other animals are coming into contact with humans as never before.
 
Zuriah stands outside her flooded home in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Unable to afford to move to a new home, Zuriah continues to live in the house even as nearly all of her neighbors move away. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

AP PHOTOS: Living amid flood in Indonesia, unable to leave

DEMAK REGENCY, Indonesia (AP) — The rice fields are washed away. Coconut trees and chili plants, flooded with salt water, are all dead.
 
Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum have a meal in their home with their son Arman in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 24, 2022. Jewel and Begum were forced to flee Ramdaspur village in Bangladesh last year when the Meghna River flooded and destroyed their home. The couple and their four sons moved to the capital, Dhaka, where they struggle to pay their rent and food bills on their small incomes. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee

Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum were forced to flee Ramdaspur village in Bangladesh last year when the Meghna River flooded and destroyed their home.
 
Soraya Holden, left, chases a chicken while walking with her family past their family home, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Proctor, Vt. After fleeing one of the most destructive fires in California, the Holden family wanted to find a place that had not been so severely affected by climate change and chose Vermont. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Climate Migration: California fire pushes family to Vermont

PROCTOR, Vt. (AP) — Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history, the Holden family just wanted a new home.
 
FILE - Workers walk to work at an export processing zone early in the morning after crossing the Mongla river in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. This Bangladeshi town stands alone to offer new life to thousands of climate migrants. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu, File)

Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world

Tens of millions of people are being uprooted by natural disasters due to the impact of climate change, though the world has yet to fully recognize climate migrants or come up with a formalized mechanism to assess their needs and help them.
 
Hondurans Ana Morazan, left, holds her dog, Jabibi, as she and her boyfriend Fredi Juarez, sit in their tent inside a migrant shelter Friday, May 20, 2022, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. Back-to-back hurricanes destroyed her home in Honduras in 2020, forcing her and Juarez to join the millions of people uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other climate catastrophes. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Climate Migration: Honduran couple flee amid storms, threats

In 2020, back-to-back hurricanes destroyed Ana Morazan’s home in Honduras. She and her boyfriend, Fredi Juarez, fell into debt trying to repair the home after losing their jobs.
 
Workers gather in the morning at a boat terminal, waiting to cross the Mongla river, in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. This Bangladeshi town, located near the world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans, stands alone to offer new life to thousands of climate migrants. The town was once vulnerable to floods and river erosion. Now it has become more resilient with improved infrastructure and special economic zones to support climate migrants. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

For climate migrants in Bangladesh, town offers new life

A Bangladeshi town stands alone to offer new life to thousands of climate migrants. Mongla, in the southwestern region, is located near the world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans.