Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2022 (Summary)
International report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global sea level, and ocean heat in 2022. The international annual review of the…
Climate change increases global risk to urban forests
Climate change threatens the health and survival of urban trees and the various benefits they deliver to urban inhabitants. This…
Increasing heat‐stress inequality in a warming climate
In a global study, a Forest Service scientist and partners found that heatwave exposure was 40% greater in the past…
Feature: Growing Trees — and Capturing Carbon
Research Forester Grant Domke thinks a lot about trees and carbon, and he is not alone. When not “captured,” or…
Untapped Common Ground: The Care of Forested Natural Areas in American Cities
Natural areas account for 84% of urban parkland. Despite this, natural areas often go unnoticed, underused, under resourced and unprotected.…
Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook; Summer 2020
The MARISA Seasonal Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook is a seasonal series produced by NOAA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and…
Low Income Urban Forestry Program in Tucson, Arizona, USA
Tucson, Arizona is experiencing increased temperatures and changing precipitation patterns caused by the combustion of greenhouse gases. Planting drought-tolerant trees…
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, an Urban National Park in the Twin Cities Area, Minnesota
Expanding collaborative efforts to establish silvicultural trials across various forest ecosystems through the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network.
Providence, RI: Climate & Health Adaptation on a Neighborhood Scale
As public and private urban forest managers work in partnership to build a more equitable and robust urban forest, the Providence…
The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat: A Study of 108 US Urban Areas
Through a spatial analysis of 108 urban areas in the United States, we ask two questions: (1) how do historically…
Planning for Climate Change Through Riparian Restoration in Houston, Texas
The City of Houston faces a unique set of natural and developmental resiliency challenges that make it especially vulnerable to…
Monitoring Forest Restoration Activities in NYC Parks
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) owns 30,000 acres of property in New York City,…
Estimates of Carbon Dioxide Withheld by Urban Hardwood Products
This study examines how simple home products made of hardwoods can prevent carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere. In…
Chicago: Lessons Learned from the Urban Forestry Climate Change Framework
This document describes a framework developed and piloted in the Chicago region to assess the vulnerability of urban forests and…
NOAA’s State-by-State Annual Log of Significant Weather Events
NOAA records the occurrence of storms and other significant weather phenomena having sufficient intensity to cause loss of life, injuries,…
Characteristics of Ice Storms in the US
Though somewhat dated, this publication provides detailed descriptions of the types, intensity, location and impacts of ice storms in the…
Value of US Urban Tree Cover: Mitigate Heat Island Effect, Conserve Energy
High air temperatures are a public health threat,causing 1300 deaths annually in the United States(US) along with heat-related morbidity and…
NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide
While more and more organizations – domestic and international, public and private – are promoting community resilience to lower disaster tolls, transforming…
Everything’s Changing: Can Your Urban Forest Thrive?
Yes! If you work at it. This interview with Karen Zumach, Director of Community Forestry at the Tree Trust, St.…
Climate and the city: Building capacity for urban adaptation
Approaches to build adaptive capacity challenge traditional approaches to environmental and spatial planning, and the role of researchers in this…
Urban Systems, Infrastructure, and Vulnerability
Urban areas have large and growing populations that are vulnerable for many reasons to climate variability and change and cities…
Adaptation
Uncertainties about future socioeconomic conditions as well as future climate changes can make it difficult to arrive at adaptation decisions…
National Report: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States
The U.S. will likely face the effects of human-induced climate change including rising seas and more frequent bouts of extreme…
Adding Green to Urban Design: A City for Us and Future Generations
The Plan is intended to provide direction to the Chicago City Council in regulating urban design and to the Chicago…
Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
The business community has for some time been aware of the risks and opportunities associated with greenhouse gas mitigation and…