Climate Change Adaptation

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View In: Climate Change AdaptationCollapse isn’t inevitable. New research shows that nimble, cooperative societies adapted best to rapid shifts.

Climate crisis | The Guardian
View In: Climate Change AdaptationA high-tech micro-dairy called Floating Farm in Rotterdam is helping rethink agriculture in the age of climate crisisSamuel L Jackson can have his snakes on a plane. Peter and Minke van Wingerden have concocted something even wilder: a herd of cows floating on the sea.The Dutch husband-and-wife team’...

Inside Climate News
View In: Climate Change AdaptationThis story is part of a collaborative series, from the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless Magazine and four other news partners, examining climate resilience across the Great Lakes. This reporting was made possible with support from the Joyce Foundation. Daniela* was relieved when she finally go...

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Climate Change AdaptationIn the aftermath of a disaster, collecting your important documents might not be top of mind. That’s why experts suggest getting everything in order well ahead of a hurricane, wildfire, or flood. The post Gather them now: the documents you’d need to file a FEMA claim appeared first on Yale Climat...

Climate crisis | The Guardian
View In: Climate Change AdaptationIn Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be underwater. Relocating so many communities is an epic undertaking. But now there is a plan – and the rest of the world is watchingFor the past four years, a special government taskforce in Fiji has been trying to work out how to mov...

Grist
View In: Climate Change AdaptationA bipartisan bill is poised to fund massive climate adaptation projects — it just doesn’t call them that.

The Guardian
View In: Climate Change AdaptationThe UN’s annual report on mitigating calamities shows that a radical rethink is needed to protect those who suffer mostIf the world seems beset by constant disasters, from the pandemic to drought, we only have ourselves to blame.Over the past two decades, we have experienced up to 500 disasters a yea...

Grist
View In: Climate Change AdaptationTo build a sea wall, you first have to build community trust.

Popular Resistance
View In: Climate Change AdaptationDuring the month of December 2021 two warnings of impending sea level rise were issued by highly respected groups of climate scientists. These are professional scientists who do not deal in hyperbole. Rather, they are archetypical conservative serious-minded scientists who follow the facts. The mos...

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Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Climate Change Adaptation Reading the new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary is fascinating, depressing, and yet strangely hopeful. The post Dictionary update shows how changing climate changes language, and much more appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.