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For better or worse, we adapt

By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance

We must adapt to climate changes in future, and we are adapting already. But if the adaptations are merely ad hoc and not thoughtfully considered, they are more likely to be maladaptations than great adaptations.

False Solutions to Climate Change: Geoengineering

By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org

Geoengineering refers to proposals for solving the problem of climate change, not by mitigation—that is, reducing emissions and deforestation, the causes of global heating—but instead by the use of new technologies.

Duck Hill, MS, is on the Rise

By Elizabeth Russell, Southeast Sustainability Directors Network

Flood mitigation is what you see on the surface in Duck Hill, but the tides of change in the community began well before the physical work, and are continuing to swell.

We Broke Down what Climate Change will Do, Region by Region

By Grist staff, Grist

Here’s the thing: Not all regions in the U.S. are going to experience climate change in the same way. Your backyard might suffer different climate consequences than my backyard. And, let’s be honest, we need to know what’s happening in our respective spaces so we can be prepared.

US Could Meet Paris Emissions Pledge with ‘Natural Climate Solutions’, Study Says

By Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief

The US could meet its pledge to cut emissions under the Paris Agreement through “natural climate solutions” (NCS), a new study suggests. NCS comprise a group of techniques that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or boost carbon uptake from land and wetlands through changes to the way they are managed.

Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

In British Columbia alone, wildfires released between 150 and 200 megatonnes of carbon dioxide in 2017. That’s more than twice the volume created by human activities in the province.

Half the Global Population Could Face Unknown Climates by Mid-Century

By Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief

Billions of people across the world could see climates they’ve never experienced before by the middle of the century, a new study says. Using a measure of climate ‘familiarity,” the researchers show that the tropics in particular are likely to experience conditions that are virtually unheard of for the region in the present climate.

Let Nature be Nature

By Albert Bates, The Great Change

We had two scientific papers shoved under our door, and both of are serious sources of hope for a world undergoing climate shock. They represent the two sides of the solution ledger, adaptation and mitigation.

What is Closed Loop Agriculture?

By Feidhlim Harty, Feasta

Closed loop agriculture is farming practice that recycles all nutrients and organic matter material back to the soil that it grew in. This forms part of an agricultural practice that preserves the nutrient and carbon levels within the soil and allows farming to be carried out on a sustainable basis.