For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

Climate-change adaptation encompasses a broad range of human policies and activities primarily intended to reduce the risks posed by climate change. It includes both realised and expected risks. This ...

Picture a mangrove at low tide, its roots holding the shoreline together, sifting silt, breaking waves, and making a home for life that most of us will never see. From a distance, it reads as one ...

At the 2025 global climate summit, COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, one decision stood out with major consequences for Africa: countries agreed on a new set of progress indicators. The "Belém Adaptation ...

Working with nature will accelerate climate adaptation while also helping to enhance water and food security, reverse nature loss and drive sustainable development The climate crisis is intensifying ...

Climate-sensitive hazards—heat, wildfire smoke, floods, and hurricanes—increase morbidity and mortality and disrupt routine care, yet US policy centers on disaster declarations rather than day-to-day ...

Investing in flood defences, air conditioning and other measures to protect the UK from climate change will provide “long-term savings” for the country, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC) ...

Environmental activists in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2025. Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images) At the 2025 global climate summit, COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, one decision stood out with ...