Cities can adapt to climate change without starting over by pairing rebuilding decisions with cleaner, more resilient design.

The image of smog blanketing a traffic-choked urban highway has cemented the perception that cars are the primary source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the driving force behind climate change. In ...

When Hurricane Helene made landfall in the southeastern U.S. last September, it brought record-breaking rainfall to states including North Carolina, dumping as much as 2 feet of water in some rural ...

The worldwide effort to mitigate climate change is not going well. Fossil fuels are still burning, temperatures are rising and effects ranging from historic droughts to super-powered hurricanes are ...

Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town Adapting to climate change is becoming more and more urgent. It is ...

Heatwaves, flooding, storms and droughts driven by climate change are making life more difficult for people around the world. Societies will need to adapt to these changes, but governments, businesses ...

Few places illustrate the challenges of adapting to climate change as clearly as the world’s most populous country. India was hot even before people started to cook the planet, not to mention ...

The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say stakeholders after the U.N.