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First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes for Good
Written on 8 May, 2009 at 23:50 in Featured, Nature | viewed 651 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world’s first entire community to be displaced by climate change. They’re the first official refugees of global warming–and they’re packing up their lives to move out of the way of ever-rising waters that threaten to overtake their homes and crops. The island they call home will be completely underwater by 2015. Full Story : Treehugger.com…..
A tool to track refugees by Google
Written on 10 Apr, 2008 at 0:27 in General | viewed 787 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
Google launched a new feature on its popular mapping software Google Earth which plots refugee movements worldwide. Users can download Google Earth software to see satellite images of refugee hot spots such as Darfur, Iraq,Colombia and Sri Lanka. According to Google more than 350 million people have already downloaded Google Earth.