As global warming forces millions to flee home, here are the stories of climate refugees

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Families in Bangladesh, Peru, Somalia, the United States and beyond are just some of the victims of climate change forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters.

Fierce and frequent droughts and floods have uprooted more than three million Somalis since 2016, according to UNHCR data that tracks internal displacement by cause.Penniless, she took refuge with other newly-arrived herders in a desolate squatter camp outside town, scavenging enough to build a hut with sticks and cloth for her husband and eight children.Harvests have failed and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network warned in August that hunger will worsen by year's end, with 3.

In 2017, during the warmest five-year period ever recorded on Earth, El Nino hit Peru with particular fierceness. With a cycle of every few years, the weather system causes an abnormal warming of the Pacific Ocean which in northern Peru translates into excessive rainfall and drought in other parts of the country.The heating planet is not just creating an influx of displacement in developing countries. Refugees are showing themselves even in one of the world's wealthiest nations, the United States.

"Our house and our business were completely gone. And it happened so fast, that we weren't able to really get anything out of the house except for ourselves," Ms Cashman said.The fire that tore through Paradise in 2018 killed 86 people and ruined nearly 19,000 buildings in just one day.

 

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