The roads of South Florida stretch in across a seemingly endless flat and watery landscape. There are no hills, but countless drainage ditches and culverts, trying mightily to carry the abundant rain to the sea.

It’s the perfect place to read Juliet Eilperin’s Washington Post story today on how sea level rise and climate change-driven increases in storm intensity threaten the roads to the oil port of Port Fourchon. It could have been written about Cape Coral, Miami Beach, Key West, or any of a dozen other Florida cities.

The severe degrading of our planet’s coral reefs is an issue that needs to be quickly taken seriously, or one of the wonders that make our lives so beautiful will be gone forever. Recently in DC, the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force held its annual meeting and the “Reefs at Risk Revisited” report was launched at the National Press Club, bringing more attention to the issue.

This Valentine’s Day, as many folks appear to be thawing out from the recent extreme winter weather, those needing to bolster their romantic plans will be happy to know that roses are one tough species. According to the Historic Roses Group (www.historicroses.org), roses have been on the planet for 35 million years. That’s about 32 [...]

The reliability and cost of food is becoming an increasing concern in light of a spate of natural disasters that are having dramatic effects on farming worldwide. Climate change stands to exacerbate these kinds of events and the widespread impacts on agriculture and society.

Bill Ulfelder, executive director of The Nature Conservancy in New York, recently appeared on NY1’s latest “Going Green” segment to discuss the crazy winter weather much of the U.S. is seeing this winter. Click here to see the video interview. Ulfelder observes that everyone talks about climate change when it’s 92 degrees in April (referencing [...]

A female polar bear faced with rapidly disappearing summer sea ice in the Beaufort Sea (north of Alaska), was forced to make a nine-day, 426-mile swim in search of sufficient ice.

As long as the storms get stronger and oceans continue to rise, we will need more and more restoration and ecosystem-based adaptation projects like Alabama’s oyster reef restoration.

It’s easy for me to forget that this past June, I was playing men’s league baseball in suffocating temperatures and cursing Apollo, Greek god of the sun. Fast forward to bitter-cold January and I’m overhearing conversations on the street that go something like this: “What is going on, here? I thought we were supposed to [...]

Terrorism and climate change are perhaps the two greatest issues of our time with highly unpredictable outcomes. So why can we do something about one but not the other?

But, nearly nine years ago, The Nature Conservancy received a warm welcome in the region, traditionally known as Lauru, when it responded to requests for guidance on protecting the community’s natural resources.

Micronesians, along with our other Pacific Islands neighbors, are among the lesser contributors to global warming, but we are at great risk from its negative impacts, especially rising sea levels and temperatures.

Daniel Tseleie is a climate change planner for Ecology in Canada and a member of a first nation community. He is collecting dramatic stories from Tlicho elders about how they are seeing climate change in the natural world around them.

Protecting nature can help protect vulnerable communities from the worst effects of climate change.