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The 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi in Java, Indonesia, created more than 250,000 refugees. People whose homes and communities are destroyed by environmental disasters (either natural or man-made) are called environmental refugees.
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Men made homeless by a volcanic eruption ford an ash-swollen river.
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Even prior to the 2010 earthquake, basic services such as trash collection were sparse in Haiti. Since the disaster, areas such as Prolonge, above, have been devastated by disease. Many areas are dependent on foreign aid to support health care and education.
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Global warming, the current period of climate change, may contribute to more powerful hurricanes, creating more climate refugees. Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of Waveland, Mississippi, above, in 2005. Hundreds of people died as a result of Katrina, and thousands more were forced to relocate.
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This young boy is an environmental refugee made homeless by flooding of the Indus River in Sukkur, Pakistan. Flooding may become more common as glaciers melt as a result of global warming, the current period of climate change. The governments in affected areas (like the Indus River Valley) are forced to create relief camps. This boy lives in a relief camp that was once a school.