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Rising seas, droughts, and extreme storms are forcing growing numbers of people to leave their homes, a trend researchers expect to reshape populations this century.
Climate migrants is the term used for people displaced mainly by environmental change such as rising seas, drought, or extreme storms. As these pressures make certain areas harder to farm, live in, or physically inhabit, growing numbers of people are forced to relocate, and researchers expect this kind of environmentally driven movement to become an increasingly significant force reshaping where populations live this century.
Digital nomads are people who choose to work remotely while traveling for lifestyle reasons, a voluntary and unrelated phenomenon, and expatriates are people living outside their home country generally by choice, neither describing disaster-driven displacement.
An important nuance is that most people displaced by climate pressures move within their own country rather than crossing an international border, and the term 'climate refugee' has no formal legal status under international law, which has real consequences for what protections displaced people can claim.
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