At Oxford University, for example, researchers have developed a self-driving car that can cope with weather conditions undreamt of in California.
Melvin Benn, the managing director of Festival Republic which organises the Reading and Leeds festivals and Latitude in Suffolk, said that on-site traders helped people to cope with weather they had not prepared for.
Smallholders face poverty traps and subsistence consumption constraints, making it difficult to mobilize savings to cope with weather shocks.
Flexible and opportunistic pastoral systems that are shaped by functional resource heterogeneity to cope with weather and forage variability cannot be implemented when rangelands are owned individually (Oba et al. 2008, Turner et al. 2016).
Larger growers, such as the commercial farms of parts of East Africa, are better able to cope with weather extremes, but they are in the minority.
Although the immediate cause of this mortality remains unknown (adults may have deserted the brood, or the young could have died due to insufficient food supplies and/or hypothermia), harsh weather conditions throughout the season could have exerted strong selection on the combination of traits that enabled some individuals to cope with weather as nest desertion occurred throughout the season.
From finding seasonal workers to coping with adverse weather conditions...farmers who grow winter vegetables face all sorts of challenges.
Written by esteemed science journalist and former USA Today weather editor Jack Williams, The AMS Weather Book, copublished with the American Meteorological Society, covers everything from daily weather patterns, air pollution, and global warming to the stories of people coping with severe weather and those who devote their lives to understanding the atmosphere, oceans, and climate.
Their first cookbook is out next month, a testament to making the most of native ingredients and coping with the weather.
Different species have different ways of coping with changing weather; if the climate heats up as expected, some may do better in the long term, while others will do worse.
