Category: Climate

Tom Lee Park along the Mississippi River in Memphis, a project co-designed by Kate Orff's firm. Once a city dump, the site now supports native trees and other vegetation. SCAPE

Ecosystems as Infrastructure: A New Way of Looking at Climate Resilience

12/13/2023 - By e360.yale.edu. When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf courses may come to mind. MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Kate Orff has a grander and more ecologically ambitious vision. Orff, director of Columbia University’s Urban Design Program, believes that architects should do more… SEE MORE

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Can Seawalls Save Us?

12/1/2023 - By newyorker.com. Pacifica, California, just south of San Francisco, is the kind of beachfront community that longtime residents compare to Heaven. One of its streets is called Paradise Drive; local fishermen brag that Pacifica Pier is among the state’s best places to catch salmon, striped bass, and crab. Every few… SEE MORE

Some houses are being built to stand up to hurricanes and sharply cut emissions, too

11/29/2023 - By apnews.com. When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle five years ago, it left boats, cars and trucks piled up to the windows of Bonny Paulson’s home in the tiny coastal community of Mexico Beach, Florida, even though the house rests on pillars 14 feet above the ground. But Paulson’s… SEE MORE

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Research on Iceberg B-15A by Josh Landis, National Science… | Flickr

World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks free, heads Toward Southern Ocean

11/25/2023 - By Gloria Dickie. The world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called A23a is roughly three times the size of New York City. Since calving off… SEE MORE

New homes are under construction in June at a housing development near Buckeye, Ariz. A growing number of local governments are considering limits on homebuilding in the face of floods, droughts and wildfires driven by climate change. Mario Tama/Getty Images

3 Cities Face a Climate Dilemma: to Build or not to Build Homes in Risky Places

11/22/2023 - By npr.org. With climate-fueled disasters killing hundreds of Americans annually and costing communities billions of dollars, a growing number of local governments are asking a basic question: Are there some places where people shouldn't build homes? It's one of the most difficult choices a community can make. Local governments typically… SEE MORE

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Which States Are Most Prepared For Climate Change?

11/21/2023 - By Katharina Buchholz. The recently released Fifth National Climate Assessment finds that while U.S. CO₂ output and the price of renewable energy have fallen, the country is still expected to feel the effects of climate change now and in the future. Even if global warming was to be restricted to current levels, the country… SEE MORE

New Funding and Coordinated Action to Help Bring California Salmon Back from the Brink

11/14/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. NOAA and its partners are implementing dozens of projects to benefit endangered Central California Coast coho salmon. The Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center has awarded an unprecedented $27.8 million to its partners through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act to bring Central California Coast coho salmon back to California rivers. NOAA… SEE MORE

Earth unbalanced: Are we changing Earth's rotation? – NU Sci Magazine

The Outer Banks Prepare for the Impact of Rising Sea Levels

11/13/2023 - By Michelle Alfini, wsoctv.com. RODANTHE, N.C. — Miles off the coast of the mainland of North Carolina, exposed to the fury and beauty of the Atlantic, the only constant for the Outer Banks is change. The chain of barrier islands has been moving, growing, eroding, and reforming for millennia, but… SEE MORE

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Changes in snowfall (in inches per decade) between 1959 and 2023. Across most of the United States—Alaska being the major exception—snowfall has declined (brown colors). NOAA Climate.gov map, based on ERA5 data from 1959-2023 analyzed by Michelle L'Heureux.

S(no)w Pain, S(no)w Gain: How does El Niño affect Snowfall over North America?

11/12/2023 - By climate.gov. Note: The primary writer of this post is Michelle L’Heureux, but it is inspired by and reviewed by Brian Brettschneider, who is the NWS Climate Service Program manager for the Alaska region. The last several winters have been depressingly bleak for snow lovers in the Washington, D.C. area,… SEE MORE

October 9, 2023: An aerial view shows low water levels on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, revealing pipes that are typically underwater. The low water levels caused barges and ships to run aground along parts of the Mississippi River in October and created saltwater intrusion concerns in southern Louisiana. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mississippi River Hit Record-Low Levels in October

11/9/2023 - By noaa.gov. A relatively warm October and expanding drought conditions across the Lower Mississippi Valley helped drop water levels to historic lows along parts of the Mississippi River last month. The U.S. also confirmed another billion-dollar disaster in October, bringing the total to a record 25 disasters in the first… SEE MORE