Geographers predict migration using climate

U Geography professors Andrew Linke and Simon Brewer and grad student Matt Shawcroft recently published Dry growing seasons predicted Central American migration to the US from 2012 to 2018 in the journal Scientific Reports. In this paper they demonstrate how drier growing seasons are driving emigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Their paper was recently covered in an article in The Economist.

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