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Climate Stressors Affect Vulnerable infrastructure

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 11, 2022

Check the range of climate stressors across the top of this chart. Arrows connect each stressor with infrastructure assets they could impact. Adapted from the Fourth National Climate Assessment, Figur ...

Coho Spawning on the Salmon River

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 10, 2022

Salmon are an anadromous fish: they spawn and raise juveniles in freshwater rivers, then migrate to saltwater to feed, grow, and mature before returning to freshwater to spawn. If global use of fossil ...

Irrigation Ditch

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 10, 2022

Farmers depend on irrigation to grow crops in some portions of the Northwest. As early as the 2030s, demand for irrigation in the Columbia River Basin is projected to increase 5% in response to climat ...

Combined Sewer System versus Separated Sewer System

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 10, 2022

In a combined sewer system (top image), sewage and stormwater enter same system. Heavy rains result in significant amounts of sewage being released to environment. Separated sewer and stormwater syste ...

Increase in Stress Risk

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 10, 2022

Results showed the system's risk from higher intensity precipitation is higher than risk from larger volumes of precipitation. Diagram provided by the authors. Last modified : . 10 Febru ...

Throw Away Your Crystal Ball: A Stress Testing Approach to Infrastructure Planning Under Climate Change Uncertainty

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 10, 2022

Summary: Civil Engineers in the City of Portland, Oregon relate how they used data and customized design storms to stress-test the city's stormwater sewer system.

February 2022 La Niña update: just along for the ride

Section: News & Features

Published: February 10, 2022

Hop in as our ENSO blogger takes you on a road trip through the February 2022 ENSO forecast.

Bark Beetle Infested Ponderosa Pines

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 9, 2022

During periods of extended drought, pine trees become water-stressed, and beetles can get the upper hand. Infested trees needles' fade from green to reddish-brown. In central Idaho and eastern Oregon ...

Tracking Drought

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 9, 2022

A technician measures the low streamflow in Lightning Creek during the 2015 drought. The U. S. Geological Survey gathered data at hundreds of sites along rivers and streams in six western states to do ...

Washington Apples

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 9, 2022

Apples are Washington's largest agricultural product. The Washington Apple Commission estimates that 6 out of every 10 apples consumed in the United States is produced in Washington. Source : ...