Catching fog for water above Lima's hillside settlements
Abel Cruz and his movement put up nylon mesh nets on the hills around Lima to catch coastal fog, giving water-poor settlements a small, local supply.
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Climate adaptation
6 stories tagged climate adaptation.
If children can't reach school, the school comes by boat
Architect Mohammed Rezwan founded Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, which runs solar-powered boats serving as schools, libraries and clinics for flood-prone villages in north-west Bangladesh.
Law students in Vanuatu take climate change to the World Court
In 2019, 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific began a campaign that led to the International Court of Justice's 2025 advisory opinion on climate change.
Niger's farmers who let the trees grow back
In southern Niger, farmers began protecting and pruning tree stumps that resprouted in their fields, regreening millions of hectares of farmland at very low cost.
Slowing meltwater to store ice for spring sowing in Ladakh
Retired engineer Chewang Norphel builds low-cost 'artificial glaciers' that freeze winter stream water near Ladakhi villages so it melts in time for spring sowing.
The teenager who began planting bamboo on a bare sandbar
Since 1979 Jadav Payeng has planted and tended trees on an eroded Brahmaputra sandbar in Assam, growing a forest now known as Molai.