Science-policy-practice interface

To help farmers adapt, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is supporting training in dry farming techniques, zero tillage, and conservation agriculture – practical approaches designed for areas where rainfall is increasingly limited.

China has deployed its first remote-controlled robot for fire prevention, with the crawler-mounted machine tripling firebreak efficiency and eliminating the need for workers to operate near flames.

This article outlines how integrating scientific, practitioner and local knowledge systems can strengthen disaster risk reduction—particularly flood resilience and sustainable solid waste management—in South African urban informal settlements.

With wildfires growing more destructive both in the United States, University at Buffalo researchers have conducted one of the most extensive evaluations to date of artificial intelligence-based deep learning models for predicting wildfire spread.

The U.K. government last year allocated millions of dollars in funding to investigate climate geoengineering. It marked the first time a state funding body had invested significant money in geoengineering research.