Migration

Every year, thousands of migrants risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in fragile wooden boats, hoping to reach the shores of Europe. Many arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where the vessels are left abandoned. In a prison on the outskirts of Milan, inmates are transforming those discarded boats into something unexpected: musical instruments.

Along Greenland’s coastline, small villages became ghost towns decades ago after the Danish government relocated their populations to larger cities. In some, though, communities have been reclaimed as summer getaways for former residents and their descendants.

As tens of millions of red crabs make their way to the ocean on Australia’s Christmas Island, their human neighbors are using different methods to help them on their way.

Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and human activity have degraded the traditional habitats for some elephants in India, pushing them and humans into increasingly narrower spaces. Now, some people are trying to find better ways to adapt to the changes.

For the first time, elephants can be seen in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, as they are pushed out of their natural habitats for varying reasons. This has led to more human-elephant encounters that can often spell trouble, especially in places like Chittoor.