The Disappearing of Tuvalu—Trouble In Paradise
This film focuses on the threat of global warming and rising sea levels in the South Pacific Island State of Tuvalu.
This film focuses on the threat of global warming and rising sea levels in the South Pacific Island State of Tuvalu.
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, scientists, policy experts, and thought leaders attempt to restore the meaning to sustainability as more than just a marketing tool.
Earth First! 26, no. 5 features articles on “whale wars,” “immigration and border militarization,” and “the e-waste epidemic.”
This film is the filmmaker’s whimsically reconstructed story of his francophone grandparents and their dramatic personal lives in a remote Canadian northwoods logging camp.
This Arcadia article is about how camels used, until recently, to be a central feature of the steppe landscape of Southern Ukraine.
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
This case study of deforested land in northern Minnesota, transformed by the lumber industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, shows how differently institutions and individuals can think about climate and ecology when examining the connection between migration and climate.
This article examines climate and perceptions of climate as factors in the migration and settlement history of the western United States. It focuses on two regions of great interest in the nineteenth century: The so-called Great American Desert in the western Great Plains and the Mexican state of Alta California, which after 1848 became the US state of California.
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.