http://conserveonline.org http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/nature-based-solutions-to-mitigation-and/view.html You are cordially invited to join The Nature Conservancy for a side event during the UNFCCC meetings in Bonn:     Confronting China‘s climate challenges – Nature-based solutions to mitigation and adaptation                 Thurs annepinkandorange 2012-05-14T22:26:33Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/the-literature-is-very-clear-that-the-southwest-is/view.html Discussion about Projections for US Drought if we don't act now:   ... So again, the ‘debate’ such as it is, is how far into the northern US Great Plains and Midwest these Dust Bowl conditions will extend — and that’s without even consideri annepinkandorange 2012-05-14T22:19:37Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/edmonton-journal-article-on-changes-in-arctic/view.html From EESI: Hybrid Bear Cubs Symbolize Consequences of Changing Arctic Climate University of Alberta scientist Andrew Derocher was tagging polar bear near Victoria Island when Inuvialuit hunter Pat Epakohak showed him two unusual looking bear cubs t cchester 2012-05-14T15:14:57Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/mountain-plants-have-a-delayed-response-to-climate/view.html From Science Daily: European Mountain Plant Population Shows Delayed Response to Climate Change ScienceDaily (May 7, 2012) — A modeling study from the European Alps suggests that population declines to be observed during the upcoming decades will cchester 2012-05-11T21:00:16Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/next-week-national-academies-symposium/view.html The three-day public symposium in Washington, DC will feature invited presentations and discussions to showcase federal investments and institutional structures regarding sustainability, identify opportunities to help promote practices that woul annepinkandorange 2012-05-11T17:11:51Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/reducing-risk-from-storms-and-floods-to-people/view.html Maximizing Integration of Built and Natural Infrastructure    Left in place, coastal marshes and sand dunes and inland wetlands and floodplains serve important flood-and storm-control purposes.   Under the current National Flood Insurance Program annepinkandorange 2012-05-08T22:35:16Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/biodiversity-conventions-scientific-authority/view.html From IISD (climate-relevant sections are bolded): SBSTTA 16 Adopts Recommendations on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, Biodiversity and Climate Change 5 May 2012: The 16th session of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Ad cchester 2012-05-08T20:38:43Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/integrating-fisheries-biodiversity-and-climate/view.html Distributed by the Resilience Practitioners Network    Reef Resilience Webinar: 
 Integrating fisheries, biodiversity and climate change objectives in the design of resilient networks of marine protected areas How can marine protected area annepinkandorange 2012-05-08T18:29:39Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/study-reveals-decreasing-arctic-biodiversity/view.html From EESI: Arctic Biodiversity decreased, carbon storage altered by climate change The results of a multinational study of the effects of warming in open water along breaks in Arctic ice were released on Tuesday, April 24, at the Polar Year conferenc cchester 2012-05-03T15:08:30Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/where-it-rains-it-will-pour-otherwise-tough-luck/view.html   Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, By David Biello   Full article here:   http://www.scientificamerica annepinkandorange 2012-05-02T01:47:35Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/international-institutions-call-for-joint-action/view.html "We have too often witnessed how disasters can roll back years of development progress. On top of that, we now need to prepare for a changing world—rapid urbanization and a changing climate are reshaping and exacerbating disaster risks.  But g annepinkandorange 2012-05-02T01:30:53Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/april-literature-review/view.html Enjoy!     Weather:  Frances and Vavrus (2012) discuss the amplification of Arctic warming and its relation to extreme weather at mid latitudes. Peduzzi et al. (2012) studied global risk to tropical cyclones based on thousands of physically obse annepinkandorange 2012-04-26T17:25:42Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/communicating-adaptation-community-based/view.html A small team from TNC attended the Sixth Annual International Community Based Adaptation conference held in Hanoi from 15-22 April. Over 300 people attended from 61 countries.   The TNC team representing work in the pacific island states was nearly annepinkandorange 2012-04-26T17:13:31Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/reflections-on-earth-day-nature-people-future/view.html "Nature in the twenty-first century will be a nature that we make; the question is the degree to which this molding will be intentional or unintentional, desirable or undesirable."    The Nature That We Make The American Spectator.  By G. TRACY annepinkandorange 2012-04-25T22:19:04Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/restore-adapt-mitigate-responding-to-climate/view.html  "The restoration and conservation of the world's coasts is among the greatest challenges of the 21st century. We are now at a crossroads. This report gives both governments and private interests new information and recommendations in the effort annepinkandorange 2012-04-25T21:02:00Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/insurance-companies-face-increased-risks-from/view.html If the damages related to climate change mount in the coming decades, insurance companies may face the prospect of paying larger disaster claims and being dragged into global warming lawsuits. But many firms, especially in the U.S., have barely begu annepinkandorange 2012-04-25T18:40:18Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/climate-change-adaptation-for-people-and-nature-a/view.html In the U.S. Southwest, global climate change, acting in concert with extant stressors such as urbanization and over-allocation of water resources, is changing ecosystems in measureable and sometimes dramatic ways.  Twenty-First century projections annepinkandorange 2012-04-18T23:24:36Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/private-sector-role-in-safe-water-for-all/view.html "It is an absurd paradox that millions who lack access to water live in areas where there is plenty of rainfall or freshwater. Improving the way we conserve, manage and deliver water is fundamental to solving the water crisis. The private sector ha annepinkandorange 2012-04-17T17:39:34Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/new-paper-incorporating-climate-change-into/view.html Craig R. Groves • Edward T. Game • Mark G. Anderson • Molly Cross • Carolyn Enquist • Zach Ferdan˜a • Evan Girvetz • Anne Gondor • Kimberly R. Hall • Jonathan Higgins • Rob Marshall • Ken Popper • Steve Schill • Sarah L. S annepinkandorange 2012-04-16T23:12:12Z Blog Entry 0 http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/climateadaptation/blog/micronesia2019s-changing-climate-a-thirty-minute/view.html Life in Micronesia has been shaped by the islands’ remoteness and the rich resources of their lands and seas. Yet this dependence makes islanders especially vulnerable to changing weather patterns and environmental threats, such as rising sea leve annepinkandorange 2012-04-12T00:53:51Z Blog Entry 0