num_pages: 103
description: There will be 50 million of them by 2050 — or 200 million, depending on which expert you ask. Yet they have no protection, not even a classification, in international law. For all that has been written over many years about the perils of climate change, precious little has documented the people around the globe being displaced by it, a disparate — often desperate — lot called “climate refugees” in some quarters. They are people who have lost much more than their livelihoods, more even than their homes; in many cases, they have lost their very identities to the wind and the water, the sand and the heat. Chronicling their plight was a global effort by New York Times journalists: eight of them spent collective months on the ground in four continents, and many others worked from headquarters in New York to enhance and elevate the storytelling using innovative tools. This TBook, based on a multipart series that spooled out over the course of 2016, provides an in-depth exploration of communities on the run from a dried-up lake in Bolivia, rising seas in Louisiana, a government resettlement program in China, drought and conflict in West Africa, and melting glaciers in Alaska.
title: Climate Refugees: How Global Change Is Displacing Millions
publisher: The New York Times Company