Identifying Opportunities & Assessing Vulnerability: Essential Characteristics of Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US 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 resource planners in India, but with only 15 minutes left [...]

From Analogy to Chronology

Mekong in October 2009, during the boat races in Vientiane ©WWF-US, Nikolai Sindorf

By Nikolai Sindorf, WWF-US My job is to help conservation scientists and economic development professionals get ready for the impacts of climate change related to water. And today, I want to write about how we imagine a climate change warning label: “Use before 2050.” Reading current discussions on climate change based on global climate models, or [...]

Getting Better Together

Ashes await the return of the river (c)John Matthews/WWF-US

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 [...]