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Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.

Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

Remote sensing is crucial for getting the measure of forest loss. Countries don't need their own satellites but they do need training.

Using low-soot stoves in Africa and Asia would cut levels of black carbon, which warms the atmosphere.

Climate change threatens food crops across the world. Now scientists are re-focusing their efforts on crop resilience, rather than yields.

Brazil's successful sugarcane ethanol industry owes much to massive investment in infrastructure and research, reports Carla Almeida.

India has experienced first-hand the delays and difficulties associated with developing a carbon credits market, writes Paroma Basu.

Controlling the amount of pollution that goes into China's Taihu Lake is the key to managing the algal blooms, writes Lucie Guo.

Scientists in the Himalayas are battling poor resources to protect the area from the effects of climate change. T. V. Padma reports.

T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.

Indonesia's carbon-storing peatlands are interesting the world's carbon-traders. But that's news to the locals, reports Gillian Murdoch.

China's carbon emissions have shot up as energy demands soar. But will this change with new technology? Jane Wu investigates.

The oil-rich United Arab Emirates is going green by building a new city powered by solar energy, writes Ahmed A. Elewa.

Tim Hirsch reports on a method of extracting methane from hydroelectric dams to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is an ecological success, but will need long-term monitoring, say Changhui Peng and colleagues.

Adaptation is now seen as an important aspect of climate change action and Africa's villages have much to teach us, reports Jim Giles.

The popularity of palm oil as a biofuel is a disaster for Indonesia's forests, providing cover for illegal loggers and destroying biodiversity in the region, reports Ian MacKinnon.

An explosion in demand for air-conditioning units in Asia could be slowing the healing of the ozone layer, reports Keith Bradsher.

Lucy Williamson reports on the problems faced by a project to rehabilitate Indonesia's depleted peatland rainforests.

New climate change models predict a heavy impact from global warming on Brazil's biodiversity, agriculture and health, reports Helen Mendes.