flooding in New Orleans resulted from heavy rains associated with Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the city's flood protection systems. Source :. Wikipedia Commons. New Orleans, Louisiana. U. S. C ...

Planning Guide. Note that the BFE is not a still water elevation, but rather includes wave run-up in the total height value; however, the CanVis simulation shows what inundation up to the BFE looks li ...

in a new way. The findings, published in Water Resources Research, reveal regional differences. In the western U. S., flash droughts are mostly triggered by lack of rain, while in central and eastern ...

Business Network (GBN) during a series of training workshops hosted by the National Park Service in 2010 and 2011. The authors created this guide as a reference for workshop participants, who possess ...

from a large set of sectoral impact models that quantify and monetize climate change impacts in the U. S., with a primary focus on the contiguous U. S., under moderate and severe future climates. The ...

Narrative : . In addition to their immediate physical effects, extreme weather events can also have substantial psychological consequences on people (for example, losing a loved one, losing a ho ...

produced several standardized geospatial ecosystem models. As a result, ecosystem occurrences in the maps can be used as a robust spatial unit of analysis for assessing climate change impacts. All of ...

as an index. The Climate Resilience Screening Index (CRSI) is designed to be sensitive to changes in the natural environment, built environment, governance, and social structure and vulnerability or r ...

000 National Estuary Program grant from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and significant in-kind support from the community. Partners included representatives from tribes, municipalities, uni ...

Narrative : . Over 130 million acres of America's forests are located in our cities and towns. These urban forests include parks, street trees, landscaped boulevards, gardens, river and coastal ...