The Great Climate Migration

It has already begun.

View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story July 24, 2020 Photograph by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times As the planet warms, the global trend toward building walls could have a profound and lethal effect. By 2070, the kind of extremely hot zones, like in the Sahara, that now cover less than 1 percent of the earth’s land surface could cover nearly a fifth of the land, potentially placing one of every three people alive outside the climate niche where humans have thrived for thousands of years. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT “The result,” writes Abrahm Lustgarten, “will almost certainly be the greatest wave of global migration the world has seen.” The magazine and ProPublica joined with the Pulitzer Center in an effort to model, for the first time, this massive migration as hundreds of millions of people from Central America to Sudan to the Mekong Delta will be forced to choose between flight or death. Read our cover story: “The Great Climate Migration.” THE CLIMATE ISSUE Meridith Kohut for The New York Times   The Great Climate Migration Has Begun New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how. By Abrahm Lustgarten Stay in touch: Follow us on Twitter (@NYTmag) or check us out on Instagram, where you’ll find photography from our archives, behind-the-scenes snippets from photo shoots, interviews on how we design our covers and outtakes that don’t make it into the issue.. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Appreciated this email? Forward it to a friend and help us grow. Loved a story? Hated it? Write us a letter at magazine@nytimes.com. Did a friend forward this to you? Sign up here to get the magazine newsletter. We have more newsletters you might like! The T List newsletter, a weekly roundup of what T Magazine editors are coveting, is coming to an inbox near you later this spring. Don’t miss the first edition! Sign up here. Continue reading the main story Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. You received this email because you signed up for The New York Times Magazine from The New York Times. To stop receiving these emails, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences. Subscribe to The TimesGet The New York Times app Connect with us on: Change Your EmailPrivacy PolicyContact UsCalifornia Notices The New York Times Company. 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018