A Professor of Child Health and Public Health, Adebola Orimadegun, has called for climate adaptation policies in Nigeria to prioritise children who are most vulnerable to environmental shocks, warning ...

The report by the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance warns adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts are often too ...

Climate change is tightening its grip on the world’s drinking water, threatening both safety and supply. Without urgent and coordinated adaptation of treatment systems, this overlooked vulnerability ...

Mountain regions are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, little is known about local adaptation responses in African mountain regions, especially if these are incremental or ...

Coastal cities play a key role in the global economy and have important functions for society at large. At the same time, they are severely affected by the impact of climate change. That is why their ...

On Thursday, October 28 and Thursday, November 18, Calvin College will be hosting a pair of lectures on climate change--the first two in the "Thinking About and Responding to Climate Change" lecture ...

Many Australians will have been reading up recently on whether they are likely to be among the 1.5 million reported to be at risk of sea level rise or the 190% increase in heat-related deaths in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A climate technology advisor, investor and educator. For years we rarely talked about adaptation because it would constitute ...

On Monday, March 9, the Commonwealth Honors College and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society sponsored the annual Daffodil Lecture on Sustainability and the Environment at the University of Massachusetts. This ...

Refugees and other forcibly displaced people, regardless of the reason for flight, often reside in places prone to hazardous weather events and in harsh environmental conditions. Climate-related ...

There’s a chilling line in Australia’s new climate adaptation plan: It is prudent to plan for global warming levels of 2°C to 3°C by the end of this century, with temperatures in Australia likely to ...

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree ...