Summary: This planning process can help local decision makers link outcomes such as sea level rise and increased stormwater runoff to consequences in their community, and then identify strategies for adaptation and hazard management.

Summary: Network members post unique or unusual environmental events onto public, web-based maps. The network provides a model for connecting community members with technical experts and resources.

Summary: Tribes, agencies, and organizations can use this guide as a framework to increase understanding of issues relating to access and protection of traditional knowledges in climate initiatives.

The Climate-Smart Conservation Cycle, a general framework for adaptation planning and implementation. Source : . Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles Into Practice. ...

Summary: Natural resource managers and conservation professionals can use this guide to help them incorporate climate considerations into their work.

Summary: This collection of templates and other resources assists tribes in their climate change adaptation planning process.

A new analysis suggests that in the winter following a La Niña, dryness in California often deepens into drought.  Consistent with that pattern, California’s current drought began in 2011-12, during the second year of a La Niña episode.

What happens when years' worth of rain falls in the Atacama Desert in one day? Tremendous flash flooding.

While many of us were wrapped up in March Madness this spring, Alaska residents and people across the globe participated in a different kind of competition.

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