Adaptation

Ready or Not: Is Your State Prepared for Climate Change?

Steve Fleischli | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Saltwater Intrusion, Floods, Drought, Aquatic Life, Water, Resilience, Climate Change, Water Scarcity, Water Supply, Extreme Weather, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming, Adaptation, Emergency Preparedness, Green News
Steve Fleischli

As the nation's water quality and supply are increasingly at risk from a range of climate change impacts -- more can and should be done at a state level. Planning is just a first step.

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Towards a Better Understanding of Climate Effects on Species

Astrid Caldas | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Competition, Species Dispersal, Conservation, Climate Change, Species Distribution Models, Adaptation, Study, Green News
Astrid Caldas

No species exists on its own; rather, an unknown number of interactions such as competition for food and habitat and spatial displacement are constantly happening, and in turn affecting the status of said species.

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Dogs' Amazing Antifreeze Feet Explained Japanese Scientists

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Cold, Freezing, Dog Feet. Paws, Canine, Penguin, Cold Weather, Dog, Fox, Adaptation, Dog Paws, Video, Science News

Woof, it's cold out there! So how come dogs' paws don't freeze up when they pad around on snow and ice - and what keeps dogs from minding the cold? ...

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'Green News Report' - December 13, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Fracking, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Climate Mitigation, Epa, Video, Conservatives, Americans for Prosperity, Corporate Media, Durban, Climate Change Denial, Solar Power, Global Warming, Tim Phillips, Energy, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Permafrost, Toxic Chemicals, Jon Huntsman, Japan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Adaptation, National Journal, United Nations, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Methane, Radiation, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Tea Party, Ipcc, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Unfccc, Michael Mann, State Department, Arctic, Wyoming, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate c...

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'Green News Report' - December 8, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Fracking, Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, West Virginia, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Pollution, Coal, Radiation, Methane, Drought, Video, Heat Wave, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Massey Energy, Farming, Fukushima, Ipcc, Carbon Emissions, Nuclear Power, Crops, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Permafrost, Pennsylvania, Army, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unfccc, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Upper Big Branch Mine, Wind Power, Global Climate Mitigation, Americans for Prosperity, Cancer, Grist, Tim Phillips, Toxic Chemicals, Jon Huntsman, Koch Industries, Ethanol, Adaptation, James Inhofe, National Journal, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Triumph o...

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Adaptation Is Lifelong: The White Egret and You

May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Psychotherapy, Change, Adaptation, Great Egret, DC News
May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

We adapt as children, with brains, nimble and flexible, to the conditions of our environment: the family we are born into, the emotional surround. Problems arise later when our brilliant adaptation styles no long suffice.

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Extreme Weather Is a Thing of the Future: So Says The IPCC, and We Should Believe Them

Astrid Caldas | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Climate Change, Ipcc Report, Extreme Weather, Ipcc, Adaptation, Global Warming, Green News
Astrid Caldas

Various articles and blogs have recently discussed the issue of extreme weather and its possible link with climate change, but now we have it directly from the top climate scientists: our suspicions are true.

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Life's Best Inventions

Wendi L. Adamek | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Meghalaya, Adaptation, Death, Environmentally Sustainable Technology, Technology News
Wendi L. Adamek

We Americans love the idea of individuals starting from scratch, not being indebted to hidebound traditions, sweeping away the past and continually reinventing themselves. We hear all the time that it's the ideal upon which our country was founded.

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Drought or Deluge: Different Threats, Same Problems

Peter Hanlon | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Texas, Organic Farming, Farming, Drought, Marcellus Shale, Fossil Fuels, Flood, Hurricane Irene, Wildfires, Power Plants, Climate Change, The Northeast, Extreme Weather, Adaptation, Green News
Peter Hanlon

Whether it's the flooded Northeast or drought-stricken Texas, the threats couldn't be more different, but the problems are remarkably the same: Farms are devastated. Power plants shut down. Water supplies are threatened.

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The All-New Original Musical (That's Based on a Movie)

Bess Rowen | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Culture News, Theatre, Theater, Broadway Musicals, Movie Adaptations, Adaptation, Musical Theater, Arts News
Bess Rowen

Why does part of me shudder at Bring It On: The Musical? It all has to do with several unfortunate experiences. Sitting through Catch Me If You Can, Young Frankenstein, and even Spamalot have made me incredibly wary of the movie to musical leap.

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The Climate Post: Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies May Be the Way to Jumpstart Climate Finance

Mason Inman | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Energy, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Europe, Coal, China, Adaptation, India Energy Policy, China Environment, China Energy Policy, International Energy Agency, u.s. Energy, Green News
Mason Inman

Just five years ago, climate change adaptation was a taboo subject among many environmentalists -- as a feature in Earth Island Journal recounts -- but things have changed a lot in recent years.

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Six Topics for the Presidential Candidates

David Hone | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Carbon Price, Climate Change, 2012 Presidential Campaign, Presidential Debates, Adaptation, Green News
David Hone

As another Republican candidate debate came and went, it has become fairly clear that the issue of climate change isn't going to get much of a hearing, apart perhaps from some questioning of the science.

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Bangkok Underground: How to Prepare for a Flood

Susanna Murley | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Floods, Flooding, Bangkok, Adaptation, Climate Change, Flood Prevention, Bangkok Floods, City Planning Floods, Flooding Bangkok, Floods Bangkok, Bangkok-Thailand, City Planning, Green News
Susanna Murley

Bangkok is a city that has been dealing with flooding for hundreds of years. It's built on water. As the city has modernized, and its people moved on land, flooding has become more of an issue.

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Tom Zeller Jr.

Overlooking The Business Case For Climate Change Adaptation

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, All Terrain, Oxfam, Climate Change, Al Gore, United Natinos, World Resources Institute, Adaptation, Green News

Marc Karell, a climate change and environmental services consultant based in Mamaroneck, N.Y., recalled a lecture he delivered not long ago to a group...

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Six Things Companies Need to Know About Climate Change Adaptation

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Business, Adaptation, Flooding, Hurricanes, Water Scarcity, Green News
Janet Ranganathan

In a survey of global businesses, 86 percent described responding to climate risks or investing in adaptation as a business opportunity. Here are some important things about climate change adaptation that all companies should know.

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Building Back Better: Joplin and the Case for Adaptation

Susanna Murley | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: LEED Certification, Greensburg Kansas, Joplin Tornado, Planet Forward, Adaptation, Reconstruction, Green News
Susanna Murley

As long we've been around, humans have blamed someone else -- gods, fates, earth itself -- for natural disasters. But, now that science suggests we have ourselves to blame, how should we react?

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Adapting to a New World of Invisible Toxins

William Spear | Posted 06.24.2011

Read More: FOOD PRESERVATIVES, Personal Health, Macrobiotics, Nuclear Energy, Air Quality, Potassium Iodine, Chemicals, Radioactive-Cesium, Radiation, Toxins, Smoke, Isotopes, Polio, Cigarettes, Cellphone Radiation, Immunizations, Food, Genetically Modified Food, Jonas-Salk, William Spear, Second Hand Smoke, Vaccinations, Adaptation, Healthy Living News
William Spear

It's a whole new ballgame, folks. Nearly every community in the modern world is facing an invisible enemy. Constant exposures to toxic loads in our en...

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President Obama's Trip Through Latin America Is an Important Opportunity to Advance Action on Global Warming

Jake Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Globalwarming, Carbonpollution, Brazil, Elsalvador, Obama, Latinamerica, Deforestation, Adaptation, Cleanenergy, Green News
Jake Schmidt

President Obama could leave his trip through Latin America with tangible progress on actions to address global warming. There are some real actions in Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador that could help.

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Whom Can I Trust?

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roy Rappaport, Anthropology, Costly Signals, Richard Sosis, Trust, Ritual, Adaptation, Haredim, Community, Judaism, Religion News
Matt J. Rossano

Trust, cemented by ritual, is the indispensible ingredient of human community and research indicates that nothing builds trust quite like religious ritual.

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Obama's International Climate Budget Proposal Would Make Key Investments

Jake Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbondioxide, Globalwarming, Presidentobama, Climatechange, budget2011, Unfccc, Cop17, Deforestation, Adaptation, Cleanenergy, Green News
Jake Schmidt

President Obama's Fiscal Year 2012 budget plans to invest in global efforts to reduce carbon pollution, tap into the demand for clean energy, and make countries more resilient to global warming.

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Meatless Monday: The Missing Link

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adaptation, Charles Darwin, United Nations International Panel of Sustainable Resource Management, International Food Policy Research Institute, Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

We're going to have to work hard not to go hungry. Or as Charles Darwin might have put it, we adapt or perish.

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Would Charles Darwin Get a Gun?

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Amendment, Assault Weapons, Survival of the Fittest, Brady Law, Iq, Gun Control, Gunlaws, Intelligence Tests, Guns, Wechsler Intelligence Tests, Gun Violence, Intelligence, Right to Bear Arms, Charles Darwin, Gabrielle Giffords, Evolution, Genetics, Adaptation, Politics News
Bernard Starr

Another devastating chapter in our long history of massacres with guns unfolded in Tucson Arizona on January 8th with the ambush of Congresswoman Gabr...

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Adapting to Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay Much More Later

Kelly Rigg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: cop16, Climate, Adaptation, Developing World, Maldives, Ban Ki-Moon, Oxfam, Climate Change, Green News
Kelly Rigg

If a country that bears no blame for the climate crisis can take decisive action to mitigate its impacts, where does our duty lie?

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WATCH: 15 Movies That Are Better Than The Book

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, The Thin Red Line, Stephen King, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Network, John Wayne, The Devil Wears Prada, The Shining, Sideways, Facebook, John Ford, Shawshank Redemption, The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption, Book Adaptation, Election Tom Perrotta, Manchurian Candidate, Accidental Billionaires, Movie Adaptations, The Manchurian Candidate, Movie Adaptation, Jaws, The Godfather, The Searchers, Stanley Kubrick, Devil Wears Prada, Book Adaptations, Adaptations, Thin Red Line, Adaptation, Bad Book, Books News

The book is so much better than the movie. We've all said it, we've all heard it. And we all think it's always true, that the book is better than the ...

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A Bad Climate for Food

Ben Grossman-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Climate Change, Sri, System of Rice Intesification, Adaptation, Green News
Ben Grossman-Cohen

Every day seems to bring a new story of the impacts of climate change on poor farmers and families around the world. Last week, the New York Times br...

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