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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 ...
Over the last two decades, economic losses from extreme weather (such as the damage caused by floods, mudslides and drought) has amounted to trillions of dollars. In parts of Kenya and particularly in ...
Africa is particularly hard-hit by the ongoing climate crisis – from increased climate-related losses to more insurance ...
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 ...
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 ...
Professor Priti Parikh and Dr Margarita Garfias Royo explain why adapting to climate change benefits everyone.
South Africa needs investments worth R250 billion (US$15.64 billion) over the next 10 years to adapt to climate change. This amount would get the country to just a minimal level of adaptation. A team ...
Nepal, March 16 -- The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has secured a decisive victory with a near two-thirds majority in Nepal ...