adaptation

Western Architecture is Making India's Heatwaves Worse

In the face of climate change, architects are looking to the past to design more resilient buildings

By Ciara Nugent May 16, 2022

Giant Rodents 'Invaded' a Wealthy Gated Community. What Happened Next is a Lesson for Cities in the Climate Change Era

Gated communities are known for their manicured lawns, swimming pools, and wealthy residents. In Argentina, they’re also known as the home of the world’s largest rodents. On a drizzly afternoon in March 2022, a family...

By Ciara Nugent/Buenos Aires May 5, 2022

The New Language of Climate Change Inequality: IPCC

On Monday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest assessment of the state of the global climate crisis, focusing on “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”—one of the core areas the IPCC...

By Elijah Wolfson March 1, 2022

IPCC Report: Window to Adapt to Climate Change Closing Fast

After decades of failure to stop emissions rising, a landmark new report released Monday from the United Nations' climate-science body warns that the impacts of climate change are here and now humans need to accelerate...

By Kyla Mandel and Justin Worland February 28, 2022

The U.S. Military Might Never Be Sustainable

The Pentagon says it's going green. But some scholars say the only sustainable military is a smaller one

By Alejandro de la Garza February 17, 2022

Farmers Globally Need to Prepare for Serious Cash Crop Disruption

Scientists unpack how rising temperatures will upend where avocados, cashews and coffee grow

By Aryn Baker January 26, 2022

Paris Resurfaces Buried Bièvre River to Fight Climate Change

In 1899, a writer for French newspaper Le Figaro surveyed the damage Parisians had done to the Bièvre, a river that for hundreds of years had snaked up through southern Paris, joining the Seine near...

By Ciara Nugent and Mapping by Elijah Wolfson January 24, 2022

My Kids Want Plastic Toys. I Want to Go Green. Here's the Middle Ground

Waiting in a check-out line a few days ago, my children started begging for toys and trinkets hanging on the impulse-buy racks. Rather than replying with the usual “Not today” euphemism, I found myself saying,...

By Emily Barone December 10, 2021

27 Kids' Books That Became Major Movies

From Harry Potter to Paper Towns

By Ashley Ross July 24, 2015

Watch the First Trailer for MTV's Scream TV Series

"Everyone is fair game"

By Helen Regan April 13, 2015

George R.R. Martin's Stories Get Hollywood Treatment

The actress will play the sorceress Gray Alys

By Rishi Iyengar February 3, 2015

Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 23

1. Though the “No Child Left Behind” brand is thoroughly tarnished, the law sparked the revolution of data-driven educating. By Nick Sheltrown in EdSurge 2. To help cities plan for flooding, drought, wildfires and other...

By The Aspen Institute January 23, 2015

Gone Girl Writer's First Novel Is Heading to TV

The best-selling author's debut novel, Sharp Objects, is being made into a television series

By Megan Gibson July 9, 2014

John Green's Looking for Alaska Will Be a Movie

John Green's first novel will get "The Fault In Our Stars" treatment, with Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley adapting it for the big screen

By Megan Gibson June 26, 2014

How I Almost Got to Decide the Next XPRIZE

Some of the smartest and most influential people gathered in outside L.A. this weekend to brainstorm the next great innovation contest

By Bryan Walsh May 18, 2014

Homes Made from Straw or Fungi Can Now Get You a Cheaper Mortgage in the Netherlands

To Survive Severe Drought This Summer, California Should Learn From Cape Town's Water Crisis

A Global Price on Water Might Help Tackle Climate Change

China Pledges to Plant and Conserve 70 Billion Trees