Global environmental risks

Environmental risks are perceived to be the five most critical long-term threats to the world as well as the most potentially damaging to people …

Short-distance migrations help communities manage climate shocks: Study

Many migrate short distances inside their own countries to harness opportunities out there or adapt to shocks and stressors in their life

COVID-19: Headline management will not work

If the poor are hit today, the rich — who started this transmission in the first place in most cases — will be …

4 charts show Venezuela's worsening migrant crisis

The exodus impacts even those who haven’t left. Many schools and medical centers have closed throughout the country due to lack …

Climate change effect: Northern climes no longer safe haven for migratory animals

The population of migratory species declines as moving to the north proves to be less beneficial and potentially dangerous

MGNREGA budget cut sends wrong signal, goes against Odisha’s successful policy experiment

Collaborative MGNREGA implementation in Odisha improved livelihoods; such efforts will be discouraged by budget cut

Forced displacement is the new norm in India

Extreme weather events have been triggering widespread internal displacement for years now. Now COVID-19 adds to the pressure

From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations

For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are …

Forced migration: Lack of global political will poses challenge for proper response, says report

By the end of 2020, 86 per cent people displaced across borders lived in countries with developing economies.   

White butterflies are filling Johannesburg’s skies earlier than usual. Climate change is to blame

There is a strong statistical relationship between the arrival dates of the butterflies and the combination of minimum temperature and …

Watch how MGNREGA help villages beat poverty in Bundelkhand

Meegni & Himmatpura were troubled by water scarcity like several other villages of the region

What can be done to pacify public hostility toward immigrants?

Here's an excerpt from the author's book Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement

World Food Day: Migration can be a strategy to overcome nutrition challenges

FAO advocates strengthening of agricultural value chains to create livelihood opportunities beyond primary agriculture in rural areas

Gendered impacts of climate change: Stories from Jharkhand

In their hometowns or factories far away, women in Jharkhand’s rural areas & urban slums face unique challenges wrought …

Migration: I am biased, for people

We must not build a divisive agenda on migration, otherwise it will lead to endless spread of hatred

Early Indians: Joining the dots and burying the myths

Tony Joseph debunks the myth of India being the homeland of the Aryans and offers a scientific chronicle

‘Gender differences in internal migration patterns decrease as countries develop’

Social and employment policies affect migration but can have different impacts according to location and circumstances

African migration to Europe: Forced returns run into resistance

Returns are low in part because European policy makers ignore competing issues and interests African stakeholders face

The untouchables: COVID-19 lockdown and the migrants

Social-distancing on the one hand and slipping back to age-old social discrimination on the other hand can break backs 

Addis Ababa faces growing climate change risks like heat, drought and floods, study warns

Increase in the city’s population will be absorbed by informal settlements, the prime destination for most migrants

Expand and diversify migration pathways, says UN chief António Guterres

Returns, re-admissions must be safe, dignified and in full accordance with international law

Bihar Elections 2020: A mandate against status quo?

The verdict indicated a tipping point in people’s tolerance for rhetoric; it also exhibited a rare consolidation of the youth 

Could climate change have brought Delhi's winter birds early?

Migratory birds, which should have come to northern India by November, have appeared in September and October itself

Fossil footprints prove humans populated the Americas thousands of years earlier than we thought

Until now, scientists believed humans only travelled south into the Americas when this ice barrier began to melt, at the earliest, 16,500 years ago

Conflict, COVID-19 fuelled 6.5 million displacements in eastern Africa in 2020

Extreme weather events such as floods, cyclones, droughts also a major factor behind such displacements