The US health care system significantly contributes to climate change while increasingly facing its adverse consequences. Despite this dual challenge, policy efforts to incentivize carbon reduction ...

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 ...

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 ...

With governments around the world falling short on their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of the 2015 Paris agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures is slipping further ...

Climate change is threatening the effectiveness of protected areas (PAs) in safeguarding wildlife, ecosystem services and livelihoods, with scientists now calling for the incorporation of ...

Australia’s climate is changing. To avoid catastrophic disruptions from successive supercharged disasters, society must adapt. But change takes time and it’s not always clear how much progress we’re ...

For the United States to address the global health risks posed by accelerating climate change, it will need to reframe climate adaptation as a pragmatic policy that can bridge partisan divides and ...

There’s a chilling line in Australia’s new climate adaptation plan: It is prudent to plan for global warming levels of 2°C to 3°C by the end of this century, with temperatures in Australia likely to ...