Summary: Municipalities can check how U.S. cities rank on climate risk and readiness. The tool can help cities make informed choices about local-level adaptation and planning strategies.

Members of the Karuk Tribe in northern California maintain that the age-old tradition of prescribed burning holds the answer to climate adaptation planning in the Klamath River range.

Farmers in southern Idaho pair up with NOAA-funded scientists to become more resilient to the basin's wide swings in snowpack, runoff, and groundwater recharge—today and in a warmer future.

What is the latest and greatest in ENSO science?  This blogger travels to Guayaquil, Ecuador to find out.  

From retreating snow elevations to rain-soaked powder, warming due to human-caused climate change will radically transform U.S. skiing over the remainder of the twenty-first century.

Summary: Much of the region’s population of 50 million people live in cities. Flooding and life-threatening heat waves are major concerns for municipalities across the region. Additionally, the region’s aging infrastructure—built to withstand past climates—may amplify impacts from heat waves and flooding events.

Published : . March 2014. This report was designed to Identify how beachgoers perceive the risk of dangerous currents and waves in the Great Lakes; evaluate existing messages and deli ...

Published : . October 2015. This report synthesizes available science on the observed and projected impacts of climate change in the Great Lakes Basin and documents the climate change ...

Published : . July 2018. Coordinated by a partnership between climate services organizations in the U. S. and Canada, this product provides a synthesis report summarizing the previous ...

Published : . June 2014. Intense rainstorms, floods, and heat waves will become more common in the Great Lakes region due to climate change in the coming decades. While ice-cover decl ...