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Migration

Science

Animal Planet

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

Sonia Shah The New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 15min Permalink

Science

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?

Abrahm Lustgarten The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 30min Permalink

Health

My Journey Through Tijuana for the Best Surgery $2,000 Can Buy

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

Amy Martyn Gen Feb 2020 15min Permalink

World

Oceans Apart

An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.

Tommy Trenchard Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink

World

Water in the Desert

Inside the effort to prevent migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border.

Eric Reidy IRIN Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Science

Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Feb 2018 25min Permalink

How Not to Solve the Refugee Crisis

A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.

Ben Taub New Yorker Jul 2017 20min Permalink

World

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl

Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.

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Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2017 45min Permalink

World

Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse

In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.

Nicholas Casey New York Times Nov 2016 15min Permalink

Arts Politics

No Country For Young Men

The deserted villages of Senegal.

Kieran Guilbert Thomson Reuters Foundation Oct 2016 15min Permalink

World

“Hello Father, The Boat is Sinking, So I Will Die.”

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

Eric Reidy Matter Oct 2015 10min Permalink

World Religion

The Fortune-Teller of Kabul

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.

May Jeong The Guardian Sep 2015 20min Permalink

Business

The Millionaire Who Rescues Migrants at Sea

Christopher Catambrone wants to help illegal migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean in ill-equipped, unsafe boats. But it’s hard to do alone.

Giles Tremlett The Guardian Jul 2015 25min Permalink

Science World

The Coming Storm

What overcrowded and swelling Bangladesh can tell us about how the planet’s population, more than 1/3 of which live within 62 miles of a shoreline, will react to rising sea levels.

Don Belt National Geographic May 2011 15min Permalink