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Picture a mangrove at low tide, its roots holding the shoreline together, sifting silt, breaking waves, and making a home for life that most of us will never see. From a distance, it reads as one ...

Green-blue adaptation (climate adaptation based on green and water spaces), which uses green and water spaces such as ...

Adaptation is not a substitute for mitigation. Cutting emissions remains indispensable to preventing the worst outcomes of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A climate technology advisor, investor and educator. For years we rarely talked about adaptation because it would constitute ...

The 2025 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the accelerating human toll of climate inaction and documents record heat-related deaths, widespread food insecurity, and intensifying ...

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 ...

Global sustainability strategies are entering a more politically complex phase in 2026 as governments and companies balance immediate economic pressures against long-term climate risks. In a report ...

There are plenty of forces trying to slow the transition to zero emissions. Populists, protectionists, fossil-fuel lobbies, to name a few. But one of the biggest threats isn’t political, but physical.

As the world grapples with how to tackle climate change, countries that signed the Paris Agreement outline their commitments ...