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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 Eliot Levine, WWF-US @ R.Isotti, A.Cambone – Homo Ambiens / WWF-Canon Last August I found myself in a dark room at a conference facility outside of Delhi, listening to what was meant to be an adaptation talk. The speaker was supposed to be walking us through adaptation options for conservationists and natural [...]  By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Two participants work together at an adaptation training in Madagascar © Shaun Martin At a recent gathering of 200 conservationists, a speaker asked her audience to identify which of the following activities were examples of “adaptation,” – restoring mangroves, removing dams, introducing new crops, building corridors, or promoting community forestry. Almost [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Click the image to download a copy of Flowing Forward Periodically on ClimatePrep we like to draw attention to new and interesting publications that we feel are worth highlighting. This week we would like to point out Flowing Forward, a new report written by WWF for the World Bank. Flowing [...]  By Anne Schrag, WWF-US Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan ©Troy Fleece In April, I was stymied by a late-season blizzard; in mid-June, extreme flooding washed out a section of Trans-Canada Highway. Finally, in late June I was able to make the drive from our Bozeman, Montana field office to Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan to lead a planning [...] By Eliot Levine, WWF-US As part of ClimatePrep.org’s continuing feature on sea turtles and adaptation, we interviewed Marianne Fish, Program Leader for Marine and Coastal Adaptation with WWF – Latin America and the Caribbean. She spoke about incorporating adaptation into existing conservation efforts, “no regrets” strategies, and how sea turtles are a focal species for adaptation [...] By Eliot Levine, WWF-US The Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminars bring distinguished scientists from a variety of fields to present cutting edge research of central importance to international conservation. Dr. Andrew Baker, an Assistant Professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami, presented in 2009. He discussed the effects of climate change [...] |
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