Visits to emergency departments (blue line) for heat-related illness spiked in response to high daily heat index values (red and green lines). Emergency departments saw at least 75 visits for heat rel ...

Summary: Many North Carolinians are at increasing risk of heat-related illness. The Climate and Health team in the state's Department of Health and Human Services focused on the Sandhills Region of the state to develop culturally responsive outreach strategies that can enhance residents' resilience to extreme heat.

HAQR . San Francisco's Heat and Air Quality Resilience plan (PDF download). Source :. Cover of HAQR. Last modified : . 27 June 2024 - 9:18pm. ...

Tall, close buildings in San Francisco warm up under sunlight energy through the day. The urban environment offers little respite from extreme heat. Source :. San Francisco Skyline. Public domain, via ...

Summary: The purpose of the Department of the Interior Nature Based Solutions Roadmap is to provide Department of the Interior (DOI) staff with consistent and credible information about nature-based solutions, such as which strategies match certain conditions and goals, what co-benefits they are likely to provide, example projects, and additional resources for project planning, construction, and monitoring.

Summary: CART is a platform that enhances collaborative conservation efforts at all scales by facilitating issue-based, not geography-based, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

Matthew Rosencrans of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center tells us why NOAA predicts a very active Atlantic hurricane season.

Warming makes similar events more likely, but models may fail to capture important ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions.

“This investment will support NOAA and its partners in better preparing Western communities for droughts in the coming years and decades.”

Eleven new projects aim to identify and better understand evolving climate risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity for islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.