#climate-change-adaptation

#climate-change-adaptation

Efforts to protect north London’s historic Highgate Cemetery from the effects of climate change have received a 6.7m boost from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, which owns and manages the cemetery, said the funding would support a wider 19.5m restoration and conservation programme. The five-year scheme forms the first phase of a 25-year masterplan aimed at preserving the cemetery’s heritage while improving public access and community engagement.

Tucked into the ridges overlooking California's San Francisco Bay and against an expansive nature area, the house Thouati and his wife have owned for 30-some years sits in one of the highest wildfire-threat areas in the state. A scientist with a penchant for diving deep, he poured into the research. Hundreds of articles later, he said, it became clear I had to swallow my pride.

Nolberto Jimbo-Niola, 52, died outside in the bitter cold this winter and was found on a Queens park bench with discharge papers from a local hospital. His death was one of more than two dozen from hypothermia so far this year in New York City, as residents faced a weekslong stretch of brutally cold temperatures.

Between the rows of chestnut and pistachio saplings, a mix of grasses covers the ground where a stretch of bare dirt would typically be - a deliberate attempt to prevent erosion. To retain water, Jorge has wrapped a blanket of wood chips around the base of each sapling. And among the young trees grow yellow lupin flowers, known as tremocilha in Portuguese, that have a special power: they capture nitrogen and store it underground.