Climate-change adaptation encompasses a broad range of human policies and activities primarily intended to reduce the risks posed by climate change. It includes both realised and expected risks.

Local action on adaptation to climate change remains insufficient across government levels, stymied by lack of resources, complexity and uncertainty about who should be making the decisions.

Antarctica sea ice has been disappearing over the last several years as global temperatures rise amid climate change. The new map of Antarctica's topography beneath the ice gives scientists a ...