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Urgency for climate adaptation

As the world’s top carbon emitters, China, US, and India, delay slashing carbon emissions, climate damages in the coastal areas of the world continue to soar. A new study [1] shows that sea level rise ...
While parts of New York and New Jersey were "building back better" after Superstorm Sandy, residents of flood-prone public housing in Rockaway, Queens, were left without heat or running water for ...
Despite complexities and blockages in the adaptation finance architecture, a series of case studies show how least developed ...
One quarter of a trillion dollars. This is AccuWeather’s estimate of the cost of damages and economic loss from the L.A. wildfires, which continue to rage as I write. If this estimate turns out to be ...
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 ...
Experts at a webinar have proposed encouraging provincial challenge funds, reforming procurement rules to accommodate SMEs and tech entrepreneurs, and conducting joint studies to identify barriers to ...
A maple sap season brought forward by warming could alter certain flavours that occur late in the harvest According to Marie ...
Nepal, March 16 -- The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has secured a decisive victory with a near two-thirds majority in Nepal's general elections held earlier this month. This outcome has sparked ...
The changing climate is a major factor in the global increase of chronic inflammatory diseases, as examples in China are ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. In the pantheon of philanthropy, Bill Gates holds a special status ...