Climate adaptation

How Native Trees Turn Pittsburgh’s Streets into Living Flood Barriers

It was a blistering July afternoon in 2024 when the clouds over the South Side burst open, turning the neighborhood into a flash-flood scene straight out of a movie. Cars stalled, bike lanes turned to rivulets, and residents scrambled for sandbags. Yet, amid the chaos, a line of newly-planted white

Climate adaptation

Indigenous Climate Finance in Colombia: How a Minilateralist Incentive Model is Redefining Funding

When a sunrise lights the mist over the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a council of Kogi elders gathers under a towering ceiba tree to sign the first tranche of a climate-finance contract that ties their ancestral forest to a private carbon-offset buyer. The crisp air carries the scent of