Climate change and variability have threatened rain-fed subsistence agriculture by affecting the livelihoods of rural communities in Ethiopia. The Gassera district is among the high-potential crop ...

Adaptation as a goal has become an absolute necessity in water resources projects to cope with the negative impacts of climate change. Adaptation planning needs to move from the traditional ...

The study, which hails from Michigan State University, demonstrates how gathering data in relation to quantified soil and landscape features together with spatial and temporal yield variations, can ...

Imagine living in a place where a single drought, hurricane, or mudslide could wipe out your food supply. Across Africa, many communities do exactly that—navigate climate shocks like floods, heat ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Extreme weather is no longer hypothetical; it’s already hitting balance sheets and public ...

Countries around the world are facing worsening heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts and floods. If current trends continue, governments need to prepare for a much hotter world with a predicted increase in ...

Protests at the COP30 climate change conference have highlighted that countries like Mozambique did nothing to cause global warming but are suffering weather disasters. Ivan Pisarenko/AFP/Getty Images ...

Birds worldwide make strategic decisions about how they live based on their environmental conditions. Some live fast, die young, and leave as many chicks as possible. Others live long and prosper by ...

One of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate — even among some who publish on climate — is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, ...

Live fast, die young—or live long and hedge your bets? These are two of the strategies that the world’s non-migratory, non-marine bird species have employed throughout evolutionary history to survive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Climate change as defined by the United Nations refers to ...