On Thursday, the food crisis actually hit home when I opened up the Washington Post, and found the headline lead on the front of the business section, “Citing Supply, Sam’s Club and Costco Limit Sales of Rice“.  Granted, the limitation was for 200 pounds of rice per visit.  I like rice, but not that much.  [...]

 A new study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by MIT researchers Professor Kerry Emanuel, Prof. Emanuel’s postdoc Ragoth Sundararajan and graduate student John Williams, supports previous research suggesting that global climatic disruption may increase the intensity of storms, even though the number of such storms would decline, although there was some variability [...]

 The IUCN in March came out with a report on the effects of climate change on indigenous people, which you can find here.  Their conclusions were interesting.  According to the report, most indigenous peoples will suffer inequitably by the effects of climate change, are often socially vulnerable as they lack rights and land tenure, and [...]

Most people know the story:  In 1973-1974, during the Arab Oil embargo, the Saudi Kingdom began subsidizing wheat production to protect themselves against a reverse boycott by western wheat producers for food security.  Growing wheat in the middle east isn’t as strange as it sounds.  As Saudi Aramco World pointed out in 1978, out, the [...]

There was much consternation at the recent international climate change meetings in Bangkok regarding the roll of the World Bank in funding climate change adaptation work. While C2Si has not fully evaluated the arguments made, it is clear that developing countries, rightly worried about the impacts they will suffer in coming decades, would like to [...]

Humans will experience the negative effects of climate change in numerous ways - rising sea levels, droughts, floods, famine, and the loss of natural resources. But the most direct impacts on humans will come from how all of these environmental changes threaten the health of vulnerable people and communities.
More and more attention is being paid [...]

 The interactions between anthropogenic environmental degradation and climate are not new, nor are such interactions straightforward.  Like much of the evolution of life on this planet, such interactions depend on the constraints of history and the context of the present.Recent studies in the Amazon rainforest have suggested that atmospheric carbon dioxide coupled with other factors [...]