Oxfam analysis of data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring centre found there were five times more extreme weather disasters — such as cyclones, floods and wildfires — reported in the last decade, that led to people being displaced.
These figures do not include those driven from their homes by drought, rising sea levels and other “slow-onset” climate-fuelled disasters.
Previous climate change as a matter of fact posts:
Africa
Cape Town, South Africa. (1/31/2018)
Kenya. (7/23/2017)
Asia
Sea of Okhotsk. (11/13/2019)
2022 World Cup games in Qatar moved from July to November. (10/18/2019)
The thawing of Siberia's permafrost. (10/5/2019)
Disappearing glaciers of the Himalayas. (6/21/2019)
No groundwater for 100,000,000 people in India? That sounds like 'unlivable' to me. (6/21/2019)
Kazakhstan: The melting of Tuyuksu glacier. (1/21/2019)
Record heat in Japan raises concerns over 2020 Olympics. (7/23/2018)
Lebanon's cedar trees. (7/19/2018)
Rising seas + draining underground aquifers = Jakarta disaster. (12/22/2017)
Australia and the Pacific
Dying coral of the Great Barrier Reef. (4/22/2018)
Easter Island. (3/18/2018)
Green sea turtles of the Great Barrier Reef. (1/11/2018)
Kiribati. (7/6/2016)
Business and industry
It's the business of a ratings agency. (7/28/2019)
Europe
White truffles production in Italy. (11/17/2019)
Italy's olive groves. (3/11/2019)
Rising seas threaten Scottish heritage. (9/29/2018)
Norway, Finland, and Sweden. (7/19/2018)
Portugal. (6/19/2017)
The Netherlands. (6/19/2017)
North America
Rising sea levels in the Florida Keys. (11/29/2019)
Some parcels are off-limits to development in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (11/23/2019)
Pecan orchards of New Mexico. (9/29/2019)
Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Green infrastructure). (9/17/2019)
Coming alive in the nighttime in Phoenix. (8/21/2019)
It's an election issue for young Republicans. (8/21/2019)
2°C beyond the limit in New Jersey. (8/14/2019)
In the newsrooms of Florida newspapers. (7/10;2/019)
The Point in Newport, Rhode Island. (7/10/2019)
Expect more fish die-offs in Wisconsin lakes. (7/9/2019)
Still on the front lines in Miami. (6/26/2019)
Great Marsh, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. (6/4/2019)
Alaska: Iditarod sled dog race. (3/3/2019)
Greenland's rapidly melting ice. (1/22/2019)
Insect apocalypse: Monarch butterfly. (12/10/2018)
Hot nights in the U.S. (9/6/2018)
Hampton Roads, Virginia. (8/19/2018)
Front-page news at Des Moines Register. (8/12/2018)
Miami, again. (6/14/2018)
May 2018 record heat in U.S. (6/9/2018)
Melting outdoor ice rinks in Canada. (3/21/2018)
Gulf of Maine. (3/8/2018)
Jean Lafitte, Louisiana. (2/26/2018)
Lodi, Wisconsin. (2/3/2018)
Maine shrimp season. (12/27/2017)
California fires. (12/8/2017)
Wisconsin. (11/16/2017)
Hampton Roads, Virginia. (11/4/2017)
Georgia peach orchards. (9/18/2017)
Northeast U.S. pine forests. (8/29/2017)
Tangier Island, Virginia. (8/25/2017)
South of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. (8/25/2017)
New Orleans. (8/12/2017)
Mexico City. (2/19/2017)
Kansas. (1/29/2017)
Moose of Maine. (1/21/2017)
Florida Keys. (1/14/2017)
California wine country. (1/11/2017)
Kaktovik, Alaska. (12/20/2016)
Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. (7/7/2016)
Polar regions
Unprecedented ice melt in Greenland and the Arctic so far this June. (6/15/2019)
Disappearing old ice in Arctic. (6/4/2018)
North Pole. (2/28/2018)
Beavers migrate to Arctic. (12/24 /2017)
Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. (12/14/2017)
Emaciated polar bear. (12/9/2017)
South America
Galapagos Islands. (12/19/2018)
Peru. (11/26/2017)
Brazil. (6/8/2017)
Bolivia. (7/11/2016)
Peru, (5/21/2016)
U.S. Military
Military prepares for reality of climate change, rising seas. (8/11/2018)
U.S. military bases around the world. (1/8/2018)
U.S. Department of Defense. (12/16/2017)
U.S. military bases. (9/22/2017)
Worldwide
Shareholders demand companies address climate change. (10/16/2019)
Business leaders acknowledge bottom line risks and costs of climate change. (6/5/2019)
Ocean heat hits record high. (3/30/2019)
Not just a wake-up call anymore. (8/10/2018)
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