Last year alone, disasters led to 23.7-million people migrating internally across the globe and it's only set to get worse as the climate crisis deepens.
Using a modified network modeling approach, the team looked specifically at water availability, temperature extremes, and migrants' socioeconomic statuses during two migration periods in South Africa.
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Princeton University shows that migration to the coast could actually accelerate in some places like Bangladesh despite sea-level change, contradicting current assumptions.