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By Dr. Nathaniel Seavy and Tom Gardali, PRBO Conservation Science PRBO Conservation Science is a non-profit organization with a mission to conserve birds, other wildlife, and ecosystems through innovative scientific research and outreach.  PRBO’s highest priority is to develop and promote conservation practices that address the challenges of rapid environmental change. Since the early 1980’s, [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Climate change has made rainfall patterns in the north Indian state of Rajasthan increasingly unpredictable and is threatening the livelihoods of local people dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Rajendra Singh, also known as ”The Rainman,” realized that indigenous water conservation was key to solving northern India’s most pressing water problems. Check-out this video from ChinaDaily.com to see a great example of how [...]

This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Danube-Carpathian region. Compared to other river systems such as the Ganges river in south Asia, the Danube basin  is not likely to be dramatically affected by climate change. Nevertheless, some parts of the river basin will probably suffer from more droughts. Floods are already increasing in [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US On 12 December 2009, WWF-US CEO Carter Roberts spoke to a distinguished group in Denmark’s Kronborg Castle at an event organized by TERI and the Yale School of Forestry and sponsored by Coca-Cola. In a session moderated by Rajenda Pachauri, head of the IPCC, Roberts spoke about the importance of water and [...]

This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Danube-Carpathian region. When WWF first started working in the Danube Delta back in the mid-1990s, it wasn’t in the name of climate change adaptation. However, WWF’s main goals – implementing model sites to show how large-scale wetland restoration can be beneficial to both people and [...]

By John Matthews, CI When I was in graduate school, I spent a lot of time reading mostly abstract scientific papers about how the world’s climate was shifting. My time in the field was spent measuring how changes in rainfall and air temperatures have been affecting dragonflies. I began to feel very worried about how even [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon. The majority of Brazilian Amazon fishermen live in areas vulnerable to climate change, or depend on resources whose distribution and productivity are known to be influenced by climate variability. One of these areas is the Amazon floodplains, where WWF-Brazil [...]

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US WWF-UK recently released Rivers on the Edge which highlights the beauty and challenges facing the chalk streams of southern England and northern France. Such small freshwater systems are critical to greater ecosystem functioning and act as crucial reservoirs of biodiversity. Unfortunately, being a small system means that not only are they often overlooked [...]