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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Tracking the tiger
The modern tiger (Panthera tigris) is believed to have originated from East and Southeast Asia about two million years ago. This correlates with the family tree of the current study which shows the South China tiger is the oldest subspecies. The first subspecies to be given a scientific name was the Indian tiger or Bengal tiger. The Caspian tiger was the second. Till now it was believed
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Dhaka explodes with climate migrants: New York Times reports
About 500,000 people move to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh each year, mostly from coastal, riverine and rural areas.
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Development in 3D: density, distance and division
New Delhi: Migration to cities from rural areas seems to be the panacea for lifting people out of poverty as per the latest World Development Report (WDR) released by The World Bank in Delhi on Thursday. The new report challenges the assumption that economic activities should be spread geographically for the benefit of the poor.
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Migration to urban areas is good, says World Bank
Taking a dig at India and other countries that believe economic activities must be spread geographically to benefit the poor, a new World Bank report has called for concentration of production, mobility of people and economic integration to lift rural people out of poverty. Population shift from villages to cities is natural and should be encouraged, it said.
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Can "assisted migration" save species from global warming?
As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species.
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Climate change is not gender neutral
Integrating gender into climate change policy at the local, national and international levels is of paramount importance. Here Lucia Kiwala, Chief of UN-HABITAT
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Rural out-migration: Two group discriminant analysis
Migration occurs in search of survival, fulfilment and a better life. Among the classified migrants, Census 2001 reported that rural out-migrants constituted the majority of 75.80 per cent. Majority of migration is from one rural area to another due to 'marriage' in the case of females and 'in search of work' in the case of males.
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Migration and the environment
The most common causes of migration in the Mesoamerican countries (the region stretching from southern Mexico to Costa Rica) are confl ict and the degradation of the natural environment. In this article we consider both situations and the effect on the region of La Mosquitia in north-east Honduras.
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Elephants without borders
Maharashtra, Karnataka slug it out over six animals SIX wild elephants in Maharashtra have braved it all