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 By: Stacy Vynne, the Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) United States U.S. © Dept. of Commerce/National Climactic Data Center/NOAA Satellite and Information Service For the past four years, the organization that I work for, The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), has been running a series of Climate Futures Forums in the Pacific Northwest region of the [...]  By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Children in Nepal ©Shaun Martin Ecosystem-based Adaptation. If you understand what adaptation is, then the term “ecosystem-based adaptation,” or EbA, should be self-explanatory. But it’s not. There is perhaps no concept more confusing or misunderstood than this one. So what does Ecosystem-based Adaptation really mean and why are we [...]  By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron Malé, capital of Maldives © Shahee Ilyas The Maldives is a country with many pseudonyms and identities. The great Venetian explorer Marco Polo referred to the Maldives as the “flower of the Indies”; to the scores of holidaymakers and honeymooners the island nation is popularly known as the “pearls of [...]  By Eilif Ursin Reed Satellite image of the Maldives © NASA Just like the swimming polar bears have become symbols for disappearing sea ice in the Arctic, the remote atolls of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean have become emblematic for the consequences of sea level rise. It just makes plain sense that islands on [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Jared Diamond © Becky Hale via National Geographic We recently had the great pleasure of meeting with New York Times bestselling author Jared Diamond (Collapse; Guns, Germs, & Steel) for a wide-ranging conversation, and will post a video of that interview soon. However, to set the stage for our meeting we [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US One of ClimatePrep’s primary goals is to highlight unique solutions to some of the toughest challenges presented by climate change. This week we would like to draw attention to a project in Peru that combines an old technique for gathering water with modern technology to develop a low cost solution to dwindling, [...] 
Daytime shot of Olive Ridley hatchling (Lepidochelys olivacea), taken from above on the sand, Junquillal beach, Pacific coast of Costa Rica. © Carlos Drews, WWF-International In this third and final installment of a three part series on WWF’s Latin American and Caribbean Program’s coastal adaptation projects in Costa Rica, Valerie Guthrie discusses the community’s efforts [...]  People of the Tibetan plateau © John Matthews By John Matthews, CI An enormous amount of attention has been paid to the loss of the ancient glaciers in the Himalayas and across the Tibetan plateau. Their retreat and the loss of glacial mass have been tied to rising air temperatures, longer warm seasons, and shifting [...] |
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