Adaptation refers to efforts to reduce the risks of climate variability and change and make a system more resilient. Adapting agriculture to climate change can better prepare farmers and producers for ...

For the world’s poorest people, climate change does not announce itself in parts per million. It arrives as a ruined harvest, a flooded shopfront, and lost learning as children are kept out of school.

Climate change has become a major focus of the energy industry over the last decade, with some voices saying adapting to the inevitable future is the best way to deal with it. The major issue with ...

Changing weather and planting practices have led to increased yields. This is an Inside Science story. Few of climate change’s varied dangers are more dire than its potential to make the world’s farms ...

Climate change exacerbates existing socio-economic challenges in developing nations. Adaptation challenges demand local solutions, supported by national authorities and non-state actors. Even in ...

Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town Adapting to climate change is becoming more and more urgent. It is ...

Humanity may be no better prepared for the impacts of climate change today than in the 1970s. So says a new study led by Stanford University researchers that compared how sensitive societies are to ...

When Hurricane Helene made landfall in the southeastern U.S. last September, it brought record-breaking rainfall to states including North Carolina, dumping as much as 2 feet of water in some rural ...

Since it was set up in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has focused mainly on mitigation. Mitigating the effects of climate change is all about transitioning away from ...

The worldwide effort to mitigate climate change is not going well. Fossil fuels are still burning, temperatures are rising and effects ranging from historic droughts to super-powered hurricanes are ...

Animals, like humans, are experiencing the effects of climate change, with many species at risk of extinction. The good news is that some animals have been showing signs of adaptation and are changing ...