Adaptation refers to efforts to reduce the risks of climate variability and change and make a system more resilient. Adapting agriculture to climate change can better prepare farmers and producers for ...

How do livestock producers respond to climate change in land reform areas in southern Africa? A recent report from the Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the ...

As part of its ongoing effort to strengthen climate-resilient livelihoods in fringe areas of Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, king chilli (bhoot jolokia) saplings were distributed by biodiversity ...

In the rice fields of the City of Ilagan, farmers have learned to read the skies more carefully than ever before. The seasons are no longer predictable. Rains arrive too hard or too late, and dry ...

Yet most adaptation action does not go far enough to manage these effects of climate change. I am a researcher working on tracking progress on adaptation and author of Sink or Swim, a new book that ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other ...

On the Great Plains of North America, bison were hunted for thousands of years before populations collapsed to near extinction due to overexploitation in the late 1800s. But long before then, bison ...

One of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate — even among some who publish on climate — is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, ...

Susannah Fisher currently receives funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). She has received grant funding from DFID/FCDO, GIZ and the Mary Robinson Foundation. She has undertaken short-term ...