Groundwater: California’s big unknown
Since we last covered the California drought, conditions in the state have stayed, well, dry—very dry. Statewide, total precipitation is about equal to or below the lowest three-year period since 1895....
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Ron Bartel explains the roots of sod-based crop resilience
Ron Bartel is a senior hydrologist at the University of Florida’s North Florida Research Education Center. Bartel works with farmers in the Southeast who are interested in switching from conventional...
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The Future of Maryland's Blackwater Marsh
Rotator Image: Fish nursery. Bird sanctuary. Storm surge blocker. Maryland’s Blackwater Marsh Wildlife Refuge is all those things and more. And it could be completely underwater by the end of this...
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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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