As parts of the world become drier and hotter, wildlife adapt by moving to more suitable habitats. But human-made borders could stand in the way, researchers warn. A first-time study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA examined how human-made barriers could restrict wildlife movement as their habitats become uninhabitable due to climate change, Bloomberg Green reported.

A powerful and unsettling journey into the dark heart of the migrant crisis

Escaping violence, war, poverty and environmental disaster, more people than ever are migrating worldwide. Some 258 million people – 3.4% of the global population—live outside their country of birth.

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Locked for weeks or months in solitary cells, mentally ill and vulnerable detainees are plagued by anxiety, anger, depression, and suicidal impulses.

“Now we are permanent residents in Canada and we are safe and free,” Vanessa Mae Rodel said. “Thank you Canada and Quebec.” By Tom Blackwell.

Sex Workers Rally for Reform. By Molly Crabapple.

Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and other major Republicans are spreading misinformation in support of the president's fixation on a border wall. By Nick Gillespie.

The 1920s weren’t just gin joints and jazz. Anti-immigrant racism was all the rage. By Lisa McGirr.

As poverty and violence force Guatemalans to leave their country, one anthropologist reflects on her work with Indigenous peoples in the highlands—and shows how the U.S. is implicated in its own “migrant crisis.” By Emily Yates-Doerr.

The company has been battling its store owners for years. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities. By Lauren Etter, Michael Smith.

“People were spreading like a fire across the landscape and very quickly adapted to the different environments they were encountering.” By Olivia Goldhill.

Immigration officials stopped allowing a volunteer group to visit people at a local detention facility unless its members agreed not to talk with the press or other groups about conditions inside. By Kate Morrissey.

ICE told Carlos Rueda Cruz to focus on “illegal aliens” with criminal histories. He would need to produce one name per month or be sent back to Mexico. By Ryan Katz. (Sept. 24, 2018)

Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, a growing throng of Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico. Their numbers swelled to about 5,000 overnight and at first light they set out walking toward the Mexican town of Tapachula, 10 abreast in a line stretching approximately a mile.

Donald Trump suggested the Spanish government tackled the Mediterranean migration crisis by emulating one of his most famous policies and building a wall across the Sahara desert, the country’s foreign minister has revealed. According to Josep Borrell, the US president brushed off the scepticism of Spanish diplomats – who pointed out that the Sahara stretched for 3,000 miles – saying: “The Sahara border can’t be bigger than our border with Mexico.”

Bank of America has been accused of asking citizenship questions and for proof of residency, then freezing customers’ accounts after failing to properly recognize their current residency status. By Rob Wile.

The 33-year-old policy adviser has made unprecedented power grabs as he seeks to slash immigration to America. By Nahal Toosi.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. By David S. Glosser.

Fairytale and myth can hold a mirror to our troubled times – as evidenced by the refugees walking the Canterbury Tales route, says Guardian culture editor Claire Armitstead.