Summary: Cleveland Metroparks needed to consider how to engage surrounding neighborhoods and residents in restoring Lake Erie’s eastern shorefront. They worked closely with community-based organizations and stakeholders to conduct virtual and in-person outreach activities and develop multilingual engagement materials for all ages.

Summary: To help communities identify shoreline adaptation projects, the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council proactively formed partnerships with stakeholders from 21 coastal municipalities. This relationship-building yielded understanding of local priorities and buy-in for potential projects.

Summary: Local governments often lack capacity to implement coastal resilience projects. This department provided voluntary incentives for communities to partner with their local governments in developing and implementing resilience strategies.

Summary: To restore function in a degraded but historically, culturally, and ecologically important watershed on O‘ahu’s Eastern Coast, The Nature Conservancy worked closely with local partners and used an adaptive management approach to ensure successful wetland restoration.

A new study links the record-low Arctic sea ice extent in 2012 tropical sea surface temperatures. The study finds that back-to-back La Niña events in 2010 and 2011, followed by a marginal El Niño may have affected Arctic sea ice.

Summary: This online tool was created to help state and local emergency managers, environmental or health agencies, and anyone who may not be familiar with EPA resources that help build community resilience to disasters.

Despite the ongoing La Niña cooling the tropical Pacific, 2022 is virtually certain to be one of the 10 warmest years in the historical record.

An annual survey is underway to provide fisheries and oceanographic data to support sustainable management of the fast-changing Bering Sea. These surveys help decision makers better understand the impacts of events such as sea ice loss.

A new NOAA study finds that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North America has contributed to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin, and a decrease in the number of these storms in the Southern Hemisphere.

A newly published study suggests a major sea-surface freshening during the mid-20th century, and a southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, affecting tropical rainfall patterns.