Tropical cyclones are becoming more frequent in the Indian Ocean. Here’s why and what that means.
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Many small island nations are struggling to protect their land from rising seas while also facing paralyzing debt.
Climate change models predict tuna will leave the waters of Pacific Island nations, meaning they will lose a crucial revenue source.
As a wealthy nation with global diplomatic and multilateral influence, Canada is among a small subset of nations uniquely positioned to act individually and collaboratively on climate change.
Rising sea levels and tectonic activity have eroded the coastlines of the low-lying Carteret Islands in the South Pacific.
New research suggests politics and risk perception may explain why the US and Caribbean see climate change so differently, though both places are ever more vulnerable to powerful hurricanes.
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Doctoral Student, Political Science, Vanderbilt University
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Director of LAPOP, Vanderbilt University
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Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Junior Research Fellow in Climate Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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PhD Candidate, climate change science, Nagasaki University