🌪️ New America Adapts pod! Always great having Shalini Vajjhala on the pod. This time we dig into why climate adaptation still isn’t scaling — despite all the plans, science, and growing risks. We explore: 💰 resilience finance 🏛️ “civic disaster” + institutional trust 🔥 adaptation’s “FOMO problem”

🌎New episode: I traveled to the University of New Brunswick in Canada to keynote an undergraduate climate conference—and came away inspired. 🎓 You’ll hear how climate policy is being taught + from students whose perspectives might surprise you. 🇨🇦 Also a bit of New Brunswick’s charm and culture. 🎧

Yikes. Not only will #climatechange impact the availability of food, but likely the nutritional value of what grow. In developed countries, larger portions (or more weight gain) to get the same nutrients. In poor countries, won't have that luxury of producing excess food. #agriculture #adaptation

Bryan Hubbell - quoted in this article - was doing some important work with adaptation at #EPA. It'll swing back, because #climatechange isn't going anywhere, but what a tragedy to lose this expertise.

I wrote up a piece for Earth Day on where I think activism is going. My prediction is that the next wave of radical environmentalism won't be pipeline blockades, or tree-sits. It's more likely to target Silicon Valley and tech billionaires. zeitzoff.substack.com/p/earth-day-...

#Climatechange adaptation is getting more attention. But I’m not convinced it’s all coming together yet. New pod with Jamil Wyne—working across Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East—where #adaptation is already shaping decisions. 🎧Adaptation Is Having a Moment—But Are We Ready?

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Had a great conversation on climate politics, my new book, and where environmental activists go from here with Doug and @americaadapts.bsky.social Listen here: www.americaadapts.org/episodes/can...

🎙️ Episode 250 of America Adapts! New episode explores how movements—including environmental ones—can drift toward more extreme tactics when people feel like nothing is working. 👉 If #climate adaptation were visible and working, would we even be having this conversation? Listen! #climatechange

🎙️ In Canada speaking at the University of New Brunswick and had the chance to join CBC Radio 🇨🇦 We talked climate adaptation—and Canada is putting some real, practical work into action right now. Good to see it getting airtime. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #ClimateAdaptation #Resilience

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Was great to be on @americaadapts.bsky.social latest show to talk about the growing insurability crisis taking hold across the country. Me and Alfonso Pating of NRDC talk about the growing crisis and what states need to be doing. www.americaadapts.org/episodes/an-...

🎙️ New episode: An Uninsurable Country #Insurance is becoming one of the clearest signals of climate risk. Premiums rising. Policies disappearing. Insurers pulling out. @nrdc.org This isn’t just about insurance—it’s about how we build and where we live. 🏠⚠️ Listen! #climatechange #climaterisk

Federal funding has been cut off to regional climate adaptation centers that help communities prepare for floods, droughts, and extreme weather. These hubs were key resources for local governments planning resilienc… https://canadapt.network/canadapt-news/p/post/32b4789d-bf2a-4214-adec-bf6810c950a5

New pod! 🎙️ I spoke with Mekala Krishnan of the McKinsey Global Institute about adaptation economics. Private firms are getting serious about modeling physical climate risk. That’s a shift. Public and nonprofit leaders should pay attention — especially to how risk is framed and communicated. Link👇

New pod🎙️ I spoke with Dr. Mekala Krishnan of the McKinsey Global Institute about their new #adaptation report. When McKinsey starts modeling the real costs of heat, flooding, drought, and wildfire… you know adaptation has entered a new phase. The private sector is paying attention. 👀 Link below👇

You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me! It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

📬 New newsletter is out. This edition highlights my interview with Dr. Shiran Victoria Shen on how #climate #adaptation emerges in China after the 2021 Henan floods — and what that reveals about governance, public pressure, and risk. Also sharing international episodes from the archive 🇦🇺🌍

🎙️ New podcast with @americaadapts.bsky.social 🎙️ #ClimateAdaptation in #China 🇨🇳 — what the 2021 Henan flood taught us about public demand, participation, and the limits of top-down policy. 🎧 www.americaadapts.org/episodes/pub...

🌏 New pod on #climateadaptation in #China. After the Henan flood, citizens used message boards to demand safety and infrastructure. A useful look at how public participation shapes adaptation. And a reminder that adaptation lessons don’t stop at national borders. 🎧 #climatechange #adaptation

🔥 New pod with climate writer Jeff Goodell, digging into what’s happened since The Heat Will Kill You First was published — and what hasn’t. Not a book review, but a conversation about the book’s legacy on why heat remains so easy to ignore. 🎧 #ExtremeHeat #ClimateAdaptation #podcast

Just in - "According to @climatecentral.org, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters..." + Interactive graphics/data: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv... + Climate Matters article: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Register (1/15): The 4th briefing in our Climate Change and Human Mobility series examines how communities and local governments in California are addressing climate-induced displacement. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @americaadapts.bsky.social @mikemendezphd.bsky.social #scipol #caleg

Check out the latest America Adapts podcast focused on climate adaptation across Arizona, featuring me and adaptation leaders in Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff! #climatechange #adaptation #resilience

New podcast alert! On-the-ground adaptation from the desert: shade that changes how people move, smarter heat-season ops, responsible water planning. 🌵 🎧 If it works here, parts of it can work where you live. 🙏 @CO2Foundation #Adaptation #climatechange #arizona #extremeheat #climaterisk

New America Adapts pod! 🎧 @keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079! #Adaptation

🎧 Coming Monday to a podcast platform near you! 📖 #climatechange #climatemigration #adaptation Subscribe here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

🌪️New episode of America Adapts! We take a real-time look at FEMA — what’s breaking, what’s actually working, and where things might go next. I’m joined by: Joel Scata (NRDC) Michael Coen (former #FEMA Chief of Staff) Samantha Medlock (former FEMA Assistant Administrator) Derrick Hiebert (AECOM)

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Great #climaterisk episode here if you haven't listened. @keenanclimate.com has some good advice - adaptation communication isn't just on bluesky starter packs. Talk to people. Have found this super useful here in CA.

New #podcast is out now: The Federal Climate Retreat and the Rise of a New Adaptation Ecosystem 🌎 As federal climate leadership pulls back, a new ecosystem of adaptation services are stepping up! 🔧📊 Conversations with Climate.us, EcoAdapt, Georgetown Climate Center, Probable Futures🌟 🎧 Listen!

🌊 Unmanaged Retreat 🌎 Isle de Jean Charles was supposed to show us how to move communities out of harm’s way. Instead, it became a tangle of politics, confusion & broken promises. Reporter Terry Jones joins me to unpack what really happened. 🎧 Have a listen! #ClimateAdaptation #ManagedRetreat

🌍🎙️ Re-release! @katharinemach.bsky.social joins me to unpack how the @ipcc.bsky.social really works—and how the media both succeeds and fails to tell its story. With the Trump admin dismantling the National Climate Assessment, the IPCC’s role matters more than ever. 🎧 #IPCC #climatechnae

Listen to our latest briefing via the @americaadapts.bsky.social podcast. #scipol #scicomm #climatechange

New (unusual) America Adapts #podcast: #ClimateChange & Human Mobility — rebroadcast from the @ccst.us series I moderated. We unpack “climate havens,” how climate stress can raise civil war risk, and why NAPs must plan for mobility. Listen here!

Interested in the impact of climate change on transborder migration? I was part of an interesting online seminar yday w UCSD's Barbara Walter & Stanford's Helene Benveniste hosted by California Council on Science and Technology moderated by @americaadapts.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsO...

Twenty years after Katrina, what is fixed? What is still broken? Where are we headed? I joined @americaadapts.bsky.social to discuss these questions and the work we are doing at the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social on disasters, recovery and community resilience: www.americaadapts.org/episodes/20-...

🌀 20 Years After Katrina🎧 What’s been fixed, what’s still broken, and what’s now under assault. I talk with @andrewrumbach.bsky.social of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, who went to New Orleans post-Katrina and has spent two decades studying disasters and resilience. #Katrina20 #ClimateAdaptation

Register: Climate Change and Human Mobility Across Borders Facing extreme #climate events, communities grapple with decisions to stay in place, or relocate to safer areas. 🔗 ccst.us/climate-chan... @americaadapts.bsky.social @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social #scipol #caleg

🌊 New pod of America Adapts! From #Acadia National Park, we dive into how the Schoodic Institute is generating the science that makes climate adaptation possible. 🦞🌲⛰️ 🎧 Listen! Adaptation only works when it’s grounded in science + partnerships — and Schoodic shows us how. #Climate #adaptation

It was great to join @americaadapts.bsky.social last month to talk about my book, Climate Change on the Battlefield. You can listen to the episode here:

Thanks to @americaadapts.bsky.social for having me on. We discussed my new book, Climate Change on the Battlefield, and why national adaptation plans *are* an investment in climate security!

🪖 Just dropped a 🔥 episode with Erin Sikorsky on how climate change is destabilizing global security—and how China is already adapting for advantage. 🎙️ We talk: 🌍 National adaptation plans 🇺🇸 U.S. backsliding 🇨🇳 China’s climate strategy 🚨 And why ignoring this is a threat multiplier #climatechange

'Twas a treat to speak on the America Adapts podcast about how we bridge housing justice and climate adaptation to secure safe, affordable, and resilient homes in a time of growing climate change impacts.

🔥 New America Adapts Newsletter! This one’s all about my latest episode: Innovations in Climate Risk & Insurance. Inside: episode resources, guest highlights, ideas for sharing, + a sneak peek at what’s next. 👉 mailchi.mp/3203f8774400...

Just out: Innovations in #ClimateRisk and #Insurance 🎙️ -Policy experts shaping reform -Insurance executives navigating high-risk markets -A Miami real estate agent on the front lines of a shifting market -Innovators using big data and tech to transform how we measure and manage risk Have a listen!

📰 New America Adapts newsletter! I break down the big ideas from the MR2025 Conference—climate mobility, managed retreat, relocation, and the stories shaping how we adapt. 🎧 Plus: Insights from Carlos Alvarado, Olga Loginova, Rob Moore, Macey Williams & more. 📩 Read it here: shorturl.at/jzJSi

A dangerous stretch of extreme heat is gripping much of the Southeastern U.S. this week. The most dangerous conditions are expected through midweek, particularly across areas from the Carolinas and Georgia down to Florida. Here's what else to know.