Climate-change adaptation articles from across Nature Portfolio

Nature-based solutions can reduce the immediate risks and impacts of climate change in coastal areas and increase adaptive capacity in the agricultural sector in low- and middle-income countries, according to a systematic review of 363 empirical studies.

Setting goals that are context-specific, relevant, and collectively shared is critical in adaptation. As necessary elements in target setting, imaginaries for adaptation and the language connected to them remain vague. Visuals produced through art-science collaborations can be great allies to (de)construct imaginaries and deglobalise discourses of adaptation.

In 2021, one in five people in Africa was affected by hunger, and the continent had the highest prevalence of undernourished people globally. We argue that food systems in Africa can be more resilient if their development includes climate adaptation.

Reliably predicting where crop yields may stagnate in the future can offer a suite of benefits for food system sustainability.

Despite the promise of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) to improve food security in South Asia, most CSA practices and technologies have not been widely adopted. We identify the key barriers to CSA adoption in South Asia and suggest strategies to overcome them to increase CSA adoption at scale.

Climate change is worsening heat waves across American cities. New research compares the benefits of urban infrastructure adaptation — such as the addition of trees and parks to cities — with those of reducing greenhouse gases on the effectiveness of cooling US cities.