Climate Migrants: On the Move in a Warming World

by Rebecca E. Hirsch

Book Overview

Around the world, from US coastal towns to island nations of the Pacific and the deserts of Africa, people are in danger of losing their homes. Some have already fled. Others know they are running out of time. By 2050, at least 25 million people will be driven from their homes due to the effects of climate change.

Droughts, desertification, rising sea levels, melting permafrost, and severe storms are drastically redefining the planet's...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467793418
• ISBN13: 9781467793414
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary