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

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 [...]

Artificial Glaciers in the Himalayas provide water to desperate farmers

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US

The information, graphics, and quotes found in the article below were repurposed from an earlier report on this subject by Scientific American. The original article, with additional pictures can be found here.

The artificial glacier stores water for the drier sowing season © Nick Pattinson for Scientific American

In India, [...]

Helping India Adapt to Climate Change: One Man Makes an Impact

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 [...]

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 [...]