World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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Rs 35cr investment in horti, agri projects to stem migration from hills
In a bid to stem the ever-increasing problem of migration from the hills, the state government is investing about Rs 35 crore in projects related to agriculture and horticulture. Dheeraj Singh Garbyal,
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Core areas in Bengaluru see population decline
For the first time, trends point to suburbanisation The city’s population grew by a staggering 44.58 per cent over the last decade (2001–11), powered by the unprecedented suburban growth. In contrast,
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Ancient Connection Between the Americas Caused a Surge in Biodiversity 20 Million Years Ago
A new study may reveal an unprecedented surge in biodiversity that occurred 20 million years ago. Researchers have discovered that species migrations across the Isthmus of Panama began during this time
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Climatic dipoles drive two principal modes of North American boreal bird irruption
<p>This study is the first, to our knowledge, to reveal how climate variability drives irruptions of North American boreal seed-eating birds. Patterns of Pine Siskin irruption and associated climate drivers
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Evidence for patterns of selective urban migration in the Greater Indus Valley (2600-1900 BC): A lead and strontium isotope mortuary analysis
Just as modern nation-states struggle to manage the cultural and economic impacts of migration, ancient civilizations dealt with similar external pressures and set policies to regulate people’s movements.
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Climate change-related disasters and human displacement: towards an effective management system
Among the negative effects of climate change, human displacement is one of the most complex to face, since it encompasses extremely delicate political topics, such as migration, protection of people in
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WHO’s new End TB Strategy
On May 19, 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted WHO’s “Global strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015”. This post-2015 global tuberculosis strategy,
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Neglected tropical disease control and elimination: Is human displacement an Achilles Heel?
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that over 40 million people are currently displaced and have variable access to health care in the country in which they reside. Populations
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Coping with weather adversity and adaptation to climatic variability: a cross-country study of smallholder farmers in South Asia
<p>Concerns over climate change and climatic variability are growing in South Asia because of the potential detrimental impacts of these phenomena on livelihoods. Such growing concerns demonstrate a need
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Urbanisation, rural–urban migration and urban poverty
Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor. In many cities, however, migrants