Urban areas face mounting pressures from extreme weather, rising temperatures and sea-level rise. Adaptation strategies seek to reduce vulnerability and enhance the resilience of critical ...

When climate change is discussed, whether at UN climate summits, in company boardrooms or in the media, the focus is often on mitigation (cutting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero).

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changing environmental conditions. But what really makes the difference is how they do it. The recently published "Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024" by ...

Climate change is reshaping ecosystems at every scale, from genetic variation within populations to biome-wide community assembly. Rising temperatures and altered precipitation regimes drive shifts in ...

A report from the Global Commission on Adaptation highlights the role nature can play in helping humans adapt to climate change. But we must help nature adapt, too. There are three key messages from ...

Anna's Hummingbird is one of many species shifting its range north and its breeding earlier in the year. (Photo credit: Will Sweet) As global temperatures rise, many species are scrambling to adapt–or ...

How is Canada’s $4.1M CRCC funding transforming Ontario’s Great Lakes into thriving, climate-resilient coastal communities? Natural Resources Canada develops policies and programs that enhance the ...

Adapting to climate change is becoming more and more urgent. It is clear that climate risk cannot be managed by technical interventions alone. For example, although developing drought tolerant seeds ...

For the United States to address the global health risks posed by accelerating climate change, it will need to reframe climate adaptation as a pragmatic policy that can bridge partisan divides and ...

With governments around the world falling short on their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of the 2015 Paris agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures is slipping further ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The essence of the Paris climate agreement was distilled into a single number.

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...