This 3-D graphic illustrates one strategy for evaluatating a medical center within the context of its surroundings. Source : . Prefurbia, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under Creative C ...

Summary: This toolkit includes a best practices document, a framework describing affordable measures that can help make health care facilities more resilient, and resources for responding to challenges associated with climate change impacts.

People who are interested in climate have a new source of maps and data on NOAA Climate. gov. The recently updated page at Climate. gov/maps-data offers easy-to-understand climate maps, a visual ... ...

In northern Alaska, ponds are shrinking and disappearing as the frozen ground beneath them thaws. The loss may have serious consequences for migratory birds and the subsistence hunters that depend on them.

A potentially high-impact study sponsored by NOAA CPO's Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program titled "Influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on tornado and hail ... ...

A team of scientists partially funded by CPO's Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate (AC4) program published a Chemical Reviews article on the chemistry of atmospheric "brown carbon,"-- the . ...

The ruins of Murdochs, a beachfront store on Galveston Island, after Hurricane Ike. The popular retail location has since been rebuilt. Source : . Courtesy of Paul Randall via Wikimedia ...

Evacuating by truck through flood waters from Charity Hospital in New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster. Source : . Wikimedia Commons. Image Credit: Ben Record, ...

Guest blogger Mike McPhaden describes what it was like making El Niño forecasts in the mid-1970s, compared with making them today.

Working with local planning departments and other experts can help health care oganizations plan coordinated responses to various threats. Source : . Wikimedia Commons |. FEMA Photo Libr ...