At local level, many grassroots initiatives are cropping up to tackle unforeseen climate-related events, but improvising and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Given the changes in our climate and the ...

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 ...

Before trauma became the dominant lens through which we interpret human suffering—and before resilience became the preferred word for recovery—adaptation was one of the central concepts used to ...

Your character adaptations are the ways you have learned to respond and adapt to the environment, given your genetic predispositions, your life history and events, and your cultural context. For ...

Anna's Hummingbird is one of many species shifting its range north and its breeding earlier in the year. (Photo credit: Will Sweet) As global temperatures rise, many species are scrambling to adapt–or ...