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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Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration
This collection of papers was presented at a conference on linkages between climate change, water, conflict and migration, held in September 2011 at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where the discussion
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Unacknowledged urbanisation: the new census towns of India
The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied the
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Unobserved time effects confound the identification of climate change impacts
A recent study by Feng et al. [Feng S, Krueger A, Oppenheimer M (2010) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:14257–14262] in PNAS reported statistical evidence of a weather-driven causal effect of crop yields on
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Climate change threatens Tibetan antelopes deliveries
Every summer, Tibetan antelopes in China's remote northwest follow a certain pattern of migration that is key to the endangered species' survival. Normally, around 30,000 pregnant gazelles migrate,
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Nagaland ranks 25th in population in India
Kohima: According to Census 2011 Provisional Population totals released on Friday last, Nagaland contributes 0.16 per cent to India’s total population and ranks 25th in the total population among Indian states. The Census of India 2011- Provisional Population Totals Paper 2, Volume II of 2011 (Rural- Urban) distribution, Nagaland series 14 was released on Friday last by Directorate of Census Operations, Nagaland.
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Rising sea level to displace 20m
As many as 20 million people of the country would be displaced if sea level rises to 1.5 metres owing to climate change. This was revealed on Monday in a report titled ‘Into unknown territory: the limits
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Coastal fishers’ livelihood in peril: sea surface temperature and tropical cyclones in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries of the world and here climatic events are considered an integral part of the social fabric. More than 3.5 million coastal peoples’ livelihood directly
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Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration
Papers presented at a conference held on 21 September 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The symposium will serve as a platform to discuss the links between climate change, water stress, migration and
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'How our river changed in front of our eyes': Impacts of Adan Dam on fisheries in Maharashtra
Flow of the river is its master variable which affects many other variables like water quality, sedimentation, biodiversity, etc. Dams profoundly affect this natural flow. Unfortunately, in India there
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Changes in farm landscape alters Punjab’s labour migration pattern
Experts say the number of agricultural migrants coming to Punjab is not declining. The migrant workers themselves laugh off any claims of a slowdown in migration. Then why do Punjab’s farmers seem to be