Climate stress related migration in Uttarakhand, Bundelkhand and Odisha

2015, Asia, Climate Change, Climate Refugees, Communication, Documentary, Films, Impacts, MigrationLeave a comment

Changing Climate, Moving People is a 35-minute film made by The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), for UNESCO, which looks at disaster or climate stress related migration from three different regions in the country – Uttarakhand, Bundelkhand and Odisha. These three states are already amongst the leading sources for internal migration and have been hit by…

Record floods, submerged Fenghuang ancient town, Hunan province – July 2014

2014, China, Extreme Weather, Flood1 Comment

Severer storms caused record floods in the ancient Chinese town of Fenghuang (Hunan province),  Guizhou province and Jiangxi province. Today (Saturday 18th, July 2014) Rammasun, a super typhoon is approaching the China coast, considered the strongest storm to target China in 40 years. The Telegraph: According to China’s official Xinhua news agency, the Tuojiang river in…