With Climate Change No Longer in the Future, Adaptation Speeds Up

In New York, designs are underway for a $203 million flip-up wall to protect Lower Manhattan from intensifying storm surges.

In China, companies building coal-fired power plants amid more frequent periods of drought are shifting to a more expensive technology that cools the plants’ equipment with less water.

In Bangladesh, rice farmers facing rising seawater are changing what they grow, some to more salt-tolerant varieties of the crop and others away from rice altogether, to shrimp.