"Climate adaptation is not about maintaining the status quo. It should be about doing something ideally better." Hurricane Ida slammed into southeast …
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How Will We Adapt to the Climate Crisis?
Preventing worst-case climate scenarios by cutting greenhouse gas emissions is key, experts say. But how will humans adapt to the effects of climate change that are already set in motion? Read about managed retreat, the push to develop drought-tolerant crops, how wetlands protect us from floods and more.
The search is on to help California farmers find less-thirsty tree crops. But will the experiments come through in time as droughts …
Wales' coastal wetlands provide more flood protection than previously thought, researchers have found. A team led by Swansea University used hydrodynamic models of eight Welsh estuaries to simulate storms of different strengths and modelled the damage they would be likely to cause. They found estuary …
More than 50 officials convening in Rotterdam call for November’s COP26 climate talks to treat adaptation as ‘urgent’.
Christy Gentry and her husband have been dealing with California's wildfires for the past four years. In 2017, the couple evacuated their Santa Rosa …
Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The second part of the …
The water-rich U.S. region may have cooler temperatures and sit high above sea level. But it can’t be a refuge for anyone if it doesn’t take action …
Public messaging on climate change is dominated by the discussion of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to limit the warming and to stop the “worst effects” of climate change. This is the mitigation of global warming. Headlines range from declarations of climate despair to the measured voices of …
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