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Planning for the Future in a Floodplain

Marsha Hilmes-Robinson, a floodplain administrator with Fort Collins Utilities, talks about the 1997 flood and the city's efforts to become more resilient. Produced by the Climate.gov video team: Ned...

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Lack of snow drives Iditarod start 250 miles north

Alaska’s famous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race traditionally starts in the southern coastal city of Anchorage. Yesterday, however, the race kicked off in Fairbanks, 250 miles farther north, for the first...

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In St. Louis, planning for flood protection, conservation, and recreation

The St. Louis metropolitan region sits at the confluence of two of North America’s great rivers—the Mississippi and Missouri—and stretches across land where the Meramec and Cuivre rivers flow....

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Protecting People from Sweltering City Summers

Orange Sunset & "Ed Koch" aka Queensborough Bridge, New York City, June 6, 2011. Creative Commons license by Chris Goldberg. Larger version. When the Citymeals volunteer arrived at the dimly lit...

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Quinault Indian Nation plans for village relocation

*/ Climate stressors on the Olympic Peninsula The homelands of the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) are located on the Pacific coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula—the tribe's culture and economy...

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Local group fortifying Chicago's urban forest and building city's climate...

Climate stressors in Chicago Chicago is at the center of one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the United States: around 10 million residents live in the region, in neighborhoods that range...

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The Karuk’s relationship with fire: Adapting to climate change on the Klamath

This story was first published on our sister site, the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. Fire is foundational to the Karuk Tribe, who live and manage 1.048 million acres of their aboriginal lands along...

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Can we slow or even reverse global warming?

In principle, we can slow the rate of global warming by slowing the emission rates of heat-trapping gases—mainly carbon dioxide—and black carbon aerosol to the atmosphere. Some continued warming is...

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Climate.gov tweet chat: Talk with heat experts on mapping urban heat islands

Rotator Image: Join three heat experts to talk about how we map, monitor, and lessen the impacts of urban heat islands.Category: Climate Change & Global WarmingClimate ImpactsObserving &...

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Release of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report Working Group 1

Rotator Image: The conclusions from the Physical Science Basis report from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are clear: climate change is already affecting nearly...

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