Tag: Climate change adaptation
More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil...
Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high...
With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble...
Evan Fricke, Rice University; Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University; Haldre Rogers, Iowa State University, and Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
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Adapting cities to a hotter world: 3 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Heat waves can be deadly, especially when they combine high temperatures with elevated humidity levels that make the air feel even...
We can’t save everything from climate change – here’s how to...
Benjamin Preston, Pardee RAND Graduate School and Johanna Nalau, Griffith University
Recent reports have delivered sobering messages about climate change and its consequences. They include...
We’ve been studying a glacier in Peru for 14 years –...
Mathias Vuille, University at Albany, State University of New York
High mountain environments in South America, which in many locations encompass peaks that reach 21,000...
In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
Nancy Fresco, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening...
Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate
Jessica Eise, Purdue University and Natalie White, Purdue University
In Colombia’s coffee-producing region of Risaralda, small trees run along the sharp incline of the Andes...
Crop insurance is good for farmers, but not always for the...
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tatyana Deryugina,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
