'Managed retreat' done right can reinvent cities so they're better for everyone – and avoid harm from flooding, heat and fires

Managed retreat doesn't always mean leaving. It's about preserving the essential while redesigning communities to be better for everyone. Here's what that can look like.

Katharine Mach, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami • conversation
June 21, 2021 ~8 min

'Managed retreat' from climate disasters can reinvent cities so they're better for everyone – and avoid more flooding, heat and fires

Managed retreat doesn't always mean leaving. It's about preserving the essential while redesigning communities to be better for everyone. Here's what that can look like.

Katharine Mach, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami • conversation
June 21, 2021 ~8 min


'Managed retreat' can reinvent cities while protecting lives when climate change floods, burns or bakes the land

Managed retreat doesn't always mean leaving. It's about preserving the essential while redesigning communities to be better for everyone. Here's what that can look like.

Katharine Mach, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami • conversation
June 21, 2021 ~8 min

As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt

Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo. The Biden administration is debating how to identify and help them.

Jonathan M. Gilligan, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University • conversation
June 8, 2021 ~8 min

Five satellite images that show how fast our planet is changing

Earth observation satellites can measure millimetre changes in sea level and track deforestation in near-real time.

Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Bristol • conversation
May 25, 2021 ~6 min

Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren't cut quickly

If emissions continue at their current pace, Antarctica will cross a threshold into runaway sea rise when today’s kids are raising families. Pulling CO2 out of the air later won't stop the ice loss.

Andrea Dutton, Professor of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison • conversation
May 17, 2021 ~8 min

Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?

A future of heat and strife or humanity’s finest hour – our response to climate change today will define the 21st century.

Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL • conversation
May 6, 2021 ~9 min

This supermoon has a twist – expect flooding, but a lunar cycle is masking effects of sea level rise

That doesn't mean sea level rise has stopped – it hasn't. When that lunar cycle starts upward again, it will mean double trouble for places like Miami.

Brian McNoldy, Senior Research Associate, University of Miami • conversation
April 23, 2021 ~7 min


Antarctica's ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise – what happens next is up to us

In a new study, we found that a third of Antarctica's ice shelves could collapse at 4°C of global warming.

Ella Gilbert, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Science, University of Reading • conversation
April 9, 2021 ~5 min

Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating 'ghost forests' that are visible from space

As sea levels rise along the Atlantic coast, saltwater is intruding inland, killing trees and turning coastal forests into marshes. Should scientists try to slow the process, or work with it?

Emily Ury, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University • conversation
April 6, 2021 ~9 min

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