Climigration

Migration forced by climate change. (Climate + migration.)

Reporting for Reuters on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change, Deborah Zabarenko wrote:

The summit is taking place about 500 miles from the Alaskan village of Newtok, where intensifying river flow and melting permafrost are forcing 320 residents to resettle on a higher site some 9 miles away in a new consequence of climate change, known as climigration.

According to Zabarenko, “Newtok is the first official Arctic casualty of climate change”; but, 26 other Alaskan villages are considered to be in “immediate danger.”

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