How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce the first of two reports:

Healthcare System-of-Systems Vulnerability
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14807.23209

➡️ In this report, we assess health system vulnerabilities to climate change, and its dependencies on failures in supporting systems (energy, transport, digital, water, waste).

#HealthSystems #Health #Healthcare #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChage #ClimateCrisis #SocialRiskManagement #Research #Science #Adaptation

New paper:
“Not Your Climate Refugees”: A Maldivian Perspective on Migration and Adaptation
Free to access https://doi.org/10.24043/001c.159184

#Climigration #ClimateRefugees #ClimateMigrants #EnvironmentalRefugees #EnvironmentalMigrants #ClimateChange #ClimateMigration #ForcedMigration #Climate #Mobility #ClimateMobility #Maldives #IslandStudies #Migration #Adaptation #ClimateChangeAdaptation

#Africa - #Coexistence That's Built to Last

"For two decades, African People & Wildlife has partnered with communities across #Tanzania to protect wildlife, restore landscapes, and support sustainable livelihoods. See how this work has grown and where it’s going next.

Landscape Restoration and Connectivity

We lead collective efforts to restore and connect a flourishing mosaic of lands that benefits people, parks, and wildlife while building local #ClimateChange #resilience.

#HabitatLoss and #fragmentation pose one of the greatest threats to the future of Africa’s people and #wildlife. Without urgent action and collaborative partnerships, our most critical landscapes and their natural resources could be lost forever.

Support Local Corridors

We engage communities in the conservation of critical corridors for wildlife and livestock that link protected areas with communal and private lands.

Revitalize #DegradedPastures

The #overgrazing of local pastures can lead to #SoilErosion and inadequate food for wildlife and livestock. Together with local communities, we monitor and manage the long-term health of vital habitats that benefit people and wildlife.

Layer Programming to Maximize Impact

We overlap our rangeland management programming with the observed range of lions, leopards, and cheetahs to ensure the health and connectivity of vital big cat habitat. We also enhance the health of these pastures with an increased beehive presence through our Women's #Beekeeping Initiative.

Leverage Partnerships to Enhance Connectivity

We work with multiple partners – including government authorities – across large landscapes like the #Ngorongoro Conservation Area to identify shared goals and implement joint programming with local community members."

Learn more:
https://www.africanpeoplewildlife.org/key-issues/our-priorities/landscape-restoration-and-connectivity

#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeCorridors #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Stewardship #EnvironmentalStewardship #SoilRestoration

How #LandRestoration is strengthening #ecosystems and #communities across #Africa

June 16, 2025

"Across Africa, land degradation and #ClimateChange are converging to create a growing crisis. Unsustainable land use, #deforestation and #SoilErosion have left millions of hectares barren, stripping communities of the natural resources they rely on. Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change – shifting rainfall patterns, rising temperatures and more frequent #droughts and #floods – are compounding pressures on #agriculture and water resources.

"Today, an estimated 65 percent of Africa's land is impacted by land degradation and drought, affecting more than 400 million people and causing economic losses exceeding US$70 billion each year.

"Governments across the continent are increasingly prioritizing land restoration as a national and regional imperative by pioneering policies, partnerships and investments to reverse degradation and strengthen #ClimateChangeAdaptation and #resilience. This brings tangible benefits for both people and nature, helping to secure food systems, create economic opportunities and strengthen communities against #ClimateShocks.

With support from the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund and UNDP, #Ethiopia, #Rwanda and #Senegal are transforming degraded landscapes into a source of stability and productivity, their experience offering a replicable model for other nations confronting similar challenges."

Learn more:
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/how-land-restoration-strengthening-ecosystems-and-communities-across-africa

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #Adaptation #TerraceGardening #ForestRehabilitation #WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #Reforestation #NatureBasedSolution

#Wildflowers evolved fast enough to survive a historic #drought

By Andrei Ionescu
March 13, 2026

Excerpt: "A potted #ScarletMonkeyFlower can look fine one day and collapse a few days later if you forget to water it. But out in the wild, some populations of this same species made it through #California’s brutal four-year drought.

"The wildflowers didn’t survive because the drought 'wasn’t that bad,' or because the plants found hidden water. They survived because, according to a new study, they evolved fast enough to keep up.

"The researchers tracked scarlet monkeyflower populations in #Oregon and California for more than a decade.

"The team reports something scientists have long discussed but rarely captured in nature from start to finish: climate-driven decline, rapid genetic adaptation across the whole genome, and then recovery in some populations.

"In other words, '#EvolutionaryRescue' happening in the real world, not just in theory or in lab experiments."

Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/wildflowers-evolved-fast-enough-to-survive-a-historic-drought/

#Superblooms #Evolution #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Flowers #ClimateChange #ExtremeDrought #Wildflowers

📣 Join the first webinar in the #DIRECTED Webinar Series exploring how #RealWorldLabs are helping regions turn climate risk analysis into real-world decisions.

27 March 2026 | 11:00 CET

👉 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/directed-webinar1

#climatechangeadaptation #climate

Life in Tornado Alley: Last House Standing (Extreme Weather Documentary)

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/fgGG9R2oMskzSUDQqMY5i2

A drone view of a floating school, built aboard a boat, travels down a river in the Bhangura area of Pabna, #Bangladesh, October 7. In flood-prone regions of Bangladesh, solar-powered “floating schools” ensure children do not miss class when rising waters cut off roads and villages.

#photography
#floods
#ClimateDiary
#ClimateChangeAdaptation
#schools