This Scientific American article discusses how Alaska is adapting to climate change. In the first of three posts, an ecologist looks at how citizens and planners are responding to the threat.
This series will illuminate innovative efforts by citizens and conservation planners to adapt to climate change. In the face of stark projections and lagging top-down policies, these vignettes will explore adaptation efforts occurring from the bottom up, and the motivations behind people taking action to safeguard species and their habitats.