As the impacts of climate change intensify, the need to better understand how societies and ecosystems can adapt—and where limits to adaptation may arise—has become more pressing than ever. Despite ...

Examining how human culture evolves in response to a changing environment may help with creating more effective climate change adaptation efforts. Using farming data from across the U.S., a team of ...

Cover illustration of the 2024 Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook, showing five of the nine case study locations. “Successfully adapting to the impacts of climate change is just as difficult and ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions. This challenge is especially urgent for crops—plants resilient to drought and ...

Many Australians will have been reading up recently on whether they are likely to be among the 1.5 million reported to be at risk of sea level rise or the 190% increase in heat-related deaths in ...

ADAPTATION is the adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic conditions or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. It is a ...

Johanna Nalau has received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is the Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change WGII and affiliated with the World ...

The world is facing more extreme weather that scientists say is fueled by human-driven climate change. The poorest countries have done the least to cause the problem, but they are being hit the ...

Climate finance is essential in helping the world’s most vulnerable communities cope with the growing impacts of climate change. By providing resources for adaptation, resilience building and ...