U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Cattle. Heat stress can affect milk production. Image Credit: Scott Bauer, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. 30 November 2016 - 1:59pm. ...

to hunt sea mammals due to loss of sea ice have raised concerns about the village's food security: not only do residents fear for their safety due to erosion and ocean storms, growing numbers of fami ...

the construction, operation, status, and challenges for ice cellars is important for both food security and for safety. In April 2014, an inventory of Nuiqsut ice cellars revealed that seven ice cell ...

the stability of buildings, roads, and infrastructure for water and waste, and decrease food security. Coastal changes are also a concern for resource managers and subsistence and commercial fishing ...

freeze of lakes and rivers, water temperature, sea level rise, flooding patterns, erosion, and snowfall timing and type. For more information, tools, and case studies specifically addressing Arctic cl ...

which could lead to more frequent occurrences of agricultural drought and suppressed crop yields. The preceding text is excerpted and abridged from the Synthesis of the Third National Climate Assessm ...

to grow their shells. The combined, ongoing impacts of development, climate change, and ocean acidification threaten to radically change the availability of natural resources on which the Suquamish h ...

and a given sector or subject domain, including (but not limited to): Coastal Flood Risk, Food Resilience, Human Health, Ecosystem Vulnerability, Water Resources, Energy Supply and Infrastructure, an ...

it harder for shellfish that form the base of the marine food web to form their shells, ocean acidification may reduce the capacity of the ocean to support the Suquamish and hundreds of millions of o ...

risks for people in the United States, including respiratory stress from poor air quality, heat stress, and the spread of diseases through food, water, and animals. 1 Extreme weather events can lead ...