Is U.S. Bound by UN Human Rights Committee Ruling on Climate Refugees?

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The United Nations’ Human Rights Committee (HRC) ruled January 21 that “countries cannot deport people who have sought asylum due to climate-related threats.” The ruling came in a case brought in 2015 by a Ioane Teitota, who sought asylum in New Zealand as a “climate refugee.” The HRC didn’t rule that New Zealand’s refusal to admit […]

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Obama in Alaska: He Didn’t Let Kivalina’s Crisis Go to Waste

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The Arctic, like the rest of the world, experiences natural cycles, and some of them can be pretty radical. While most of the world enjoys a pretty stable 24-hour cycle of sunrise and sunset, with the sun visible roughly half of each day, a little longer in summer, a little shorter in winter, the Arctic

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