BAKU, November 20, 2024 – Already suffering from a decade of conflict, Yemen is facing mounting risks brought on by climate change, which is intensifying existing threats like water scarcity and food ...

Estimated median income loss or gain per person by 2050 due to climate change, compared to a scenario with no climate impacts (red colour indicates a loss, blue colour a gain). Photo: WIKIMEDIA This ...

Researchers are looking at the impact of climate change in communities affected by conflict and have found that many countries most impacted by these crises are being overlooked. "Talking to the ...

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a "climate conflict" and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular ...

“Access to resources has always been part of conflict and warfare. But given the dramatic effects of climate change, this will quadruple the effect” said Wopke Hoekstra to the Financial Times. The ...

CHATHAM HOUSE, LONDON, September 11, 2024 — It’s nice to be back at Chatham House. I spoke here in November 2022 about the UK’s place in a changing world. Today I want to focus on some of the poorest ...

The combined impact of climate change and conflict “can produce synergistic effects, leading to more severe and complex outcomes,” warn experts in The BMJ’s climate issue today. From 1995 to 2015, ...

In October and November 2023, Lauren Herwehe conducted preliminary dissertation fieldwork in the Sofala and Gaza provinces of Mozambique. This research was undertaken in collaboration with Eduardo ...

Increasing numbers of Mbororo pastoralists and their cattle have settled in the northernmost provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two decades, fleeing conflict and seeking ...

John O’Loughlin, College Professor of Distinction in Geography and Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), received a National Science Foundation grant in August 2024 for a study of climate ...

Millions of people across the globe continue to be forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, and climate-related hazards. In fact, the number of forcibly displaced people in the world ...