After receiving unprecedented amounts of rainfall late last year, communities in northwestern Washington are asking questions about how to prevent flood damage in a warmer and wetter climate.
Although geotextiles have helped to slow glacier melt in Switzerland, they are a climate change adaptation that’s not affordable or feasible in many developing countries.
Mumbai’s climate action plan, created as part of the C40 cities initiative, focuses too much on data collection and not enough on action.
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Tanishka Sachidanand
|September 29, 2021
New recommendations outline a path to maximize impact of investments in digital climate services for small-scale farmers.
She helped to draft a national climate change policy in her home country.
She wants to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.
A number of development programs in the high Andes involve Indigenous men but exclude women herders, preventing the potentially vital exchange of knowledge.
Swiss ski resorts are using geotextiles to prevent accelerated glacial melting, but researchers have found this strategy too expensive for use in global-scale glacier protection.
A less predictable climate is undermining traditional decision-making around controlled burns in the Sahel. Columbia’s ACToday project is forging connections to enhance these communities’ resilience to the changing climate.
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Natalie Duncan
|March 19, 2021
When a species spreads too slowly to escape climate dangers, should humans assist them in migrating into nearby territories?
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Kevin Webb
|March 15, 2021