U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

of various conservation practices in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. COMET-Farm provides a robust decision support platform, helping facilitate decisions relatin ...

Category IV includes designated public shelters, hospitals, vital data storage centers, power generation and water and other utilities, and installations which produce, use, or store hazardous materia ...

of ice and metocean (physical environment) conditions, biological assets, shipping traffic, oil and gas resources, and accident history. It also contains indices for risk levels that affect safety, o ...

is to develop a database and tool set intended to provide data for use in LCAs of food, biofuels, and a variety of other bioproducts. It makes North American LCA data more accessible to the community ...

Being Loaded with Crude Oil. A tanker is loaded with crude oil from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System at the Valdez Marine Terminal in Alaska. Courtesy of the Joint Pipeline Office. Public Domain. 22 J ...

This map shows that many parts of Mobile, Alabama—including critical roads, rail lines, and pipelines—would be exposed to storm surge under a scenario of a 30-inch sea level rise combined with a stor ...

beech/birch, may shrink significantly or disappear altogether, depending on how greatly carbon dioxide emissions increase in the future. Climate change impacts on ecosystems. While the climate has alw ...

in the Gulf of Mexico and serves as the land base for the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline. More than 15% of the United States’ domestic oil supply already comes through Port Fourchon, and industr ...

carbon absorbers (or “carbon sinks”) may be reduced by increases in tree mortality and carbon emission, forest fires, and drought. Some regions may shift from being a carbon sink to a carbon source, ...

change. Key stressor: Ocean acidification. Ocean acidification is the result of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the atmosphere mixing with and dissolving into the ocean. The result is a chemical reaction th ...