After 20 years of reporting on migration I’ve come to learn that practically every migration story is also, in one way or another, and somewhere along the way, also a story of climate change. To migrate, particularly from south to north, is to move through a multitude of ecosystems that are also migrating and mutating as a matter of survival.

The temperature of the Mediterranean basin is rising at a rate 20% faster than the rest of Europe, and in Greece, the cost of climate chaos per capita—basically, how much the average person ends up spending to offset, prevent, or recover from climate emergency—is some 10 times higher than any other Mediterranean country. Meanwhile, Greece’s rate of... See more