Published : . June 2015. In 1993, Portland was the first U. S. city to create a local action plan for cutting carbon. Portland's Climate Action Plan is a strategy to put Portland and ...

Published : . September 2010. The Plan's goals include reducing community-wide greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, reducing community-wide fossil fuel use 5 ...

Published : . January 2009. This report is designed to help Oregon's local decision makers prepare adaptation plans and state agencies to coordinate their infrastructure plans with lo ...

Published : . February 2006. This document identifies goals and actions to conserve and restore Oregon's species, habitats, and ecosystems. The report addresses climate change as a ke ...

Published : . April 2012. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has developed this adaptation strategy, which is inclusive of an impact assessment for its infrastructure and ...

The 2016 winter maximum sea ice extent in the Arctic edged out 2015 to a set a new record low. 

The U. S. National Climate Indicators System is a climate dashboard, led by the U. S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), that monitors and analyzes specific physical, ecological, and societal .. ...

Published : . March 2013. This report summarizes the current state of knowledge on potential abrupt changes to the ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems, and high-latitude areas, and identifi ...

Researchers and community members use shovels and coring intruments to gather environmental observations. Image courtesy of the SNOWY project. Page/s that contain this image : . Yukon De ...

An ocean heat wave slammed the lobster industry in the Gulf of Maine in 2012. Scientists and lobstermen studying the incident found a surprise: just not fishing during the heatwave would have been better for the lobstermen's bottom line.