Latest Adaptation to global warming Stories
By Ruth Davis Resistance can no longer be the only response to climate change - we need to learn how to live with it. Protecting bird habitat is part of meeting that challenge, Ruth Davis writes There was a time when talking about climate change adaptation was seen as tantamount to giving up on the struggle to curb emissions. Older and wiser, most of us now recognise that we will probably have to accommodate something like a two-degree rise in global temperatures at a minimum while...
By Anonymous Climate change is a concern to most local public health directors but few have resources to tackle the problem, according to a national survey conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and George Mason University. The survey, included in the report Are We Ready ? Preparing for the Public Health Challenges of Climate Change, is the first national one of its kind that assesses the perceptions and...
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today announced the release of Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity. "Our government takes the issue of climate change very seriously," said Minister Clement. "We are already taking real action to combat climate change with our Turning the Corner Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." Since coming into office, this Government has invested over $9 billion to protect and...
Most U.S. health officials see climate change as looming health threat: survey WASHINGTON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- A majority of U.S. health department directors believe their city or county will have serious public health problems as a result of climate change within the next 20 years, according to the results of a new survey released Tuesday by George Mason University. However, very few of them have planned or implemented activities to detect, prevent or adapt to these health threats, said...
By Marsh, Simon Watt, Olly While protecting wildlife habitats is a key part of planners' approach to climate change adaptation creating new ones also has a vital role to play, report Simon Marsh and Olly Watt What links the golden toad of Costa Rica with your local development plan? The answer is that if planners do not take measures to allow wildlife to adapt to climate change, some species may be heading the same way as the golden toad already extinct because of climate change. Planners...
TEMPE, Ariz. "“ Temperatures are rising on Earth, which is heating up the debate over global warming and the future of our planet, but what may be needed most to combat global warming is a greater focus on adapting to our changing planet, says a team of science policy experts writing in this week's Nature magazine.While many consider it taboo, adaptation to global climate change needs to be recognized as just as important as "mitigation," or cutting back, of greenhouse gases...
