Adaptation
Nature Water
To Solve Climate Change, We Need to Restore Our Sponge Planet
Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change. Slow Water projects can reverse...
Scientific American
The Radical Groundwater Storage Test
New tactics for capturing floods and surviving droughts could help communities across California and the world.
NPR
Cities Are Turning Flood Water Into Freshwater
As a guest on NPR’s “Science Friday,” Erica talks about sponge cities in China and the ways in which several cities around the world...
Scientific American
Sponge City Revolution
Restoring natural water flows in cities can lessen the impacts of floods and droughts.
Scientific American
Expanding Paved Areas Has an Outsize Effect on Urban Flooding
Researchers have finally been able to pinpoint just how much impervious surfaces exacerbate flood levels
The Guardian
10 Riskiest Places to Buy Your Seaside Dream Home
As sea levels rise, real estate investments in these seaside metropolises could amount to throwing money into the sea
The Guardian
12 Ways Communities Will Have to Adapt to Handle Climate Change
Whatever your water crisis, whether drought or flood, these DIY solutions will help you adjust to climate change’s new reality.
Nature
Fortresses of Mud
Rising seas threaten the San Francisco Bay Area, home to one of the largest estuaries in North America. But marsh-restoration efforts could hold back...
TakePart
Coca-Cola Leaves It to Beavers to Fight the Drought
The soft-drink giant is deploying the dam-building animals to replenish groundwater supplies.
Hakai magazine
Tribes Use Western and Indigenous Science to Prepare for Climate Change
Northwestern tribes and the University of Washington climate group have joined forces to help protect salmon, roots, trees, and other important resources.
Ensia
With Floods and Droughts Increasing, Communities Take a New Look at Storing Water Underground
Groundwater recharge is the latest wave in water security – though challenges remain.
Ensia
The “One Water” Movement Is Helping the Environment and Saving Millions of Dollars
Solutions to floods, droughts, and pollution that look upstream, downstream and everywhere in between save dollars and make sense.
Ensia
Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance
From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising way urban areas are dealing with water woes
Ensia
As Floods Increase, Cities Like Detroit Are Looking to Green Stormwater Infrastructure:
With climate change bringing more intense storms, urban areas are looking for better ways to manage runoff.
Scientific American
Ecological Detectives Hunt for San Francisco’s Vanished Waterways
Recovering “ghost creeks” from past landscapes can help protect the city’s future amid climate chaos.