The Plain of Reeds: Restoring wetlands in the Rice Bowl of Vietnam

by Jonathan Cook, WWF-US

Sarus cranes (© Nguyen Van Hung )

A densely populated country with a very long coastline, Vietnam appears frequently on lists of the countries that are expected to be most seriously affected by climate change. And the Mekong Delta will be one of the most [...]

National Climate Adaptation Summit held in Washington from 25-27 May

Here’s a repost from Nick Sundt’s WWF Climate Blog, recounting the recent Adaptation Summit in Washington, published on Mon, 06/07/2010.

The Administration of President Barack Obama took an important step toward national climate change preparedness when it convened on 25-27 May 2010 a National Climate Adaptation Summit in Washington, DC. The stated purpose of [...]

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 [...]