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  • Clockwise from top: Town of Cary Town of Chapel Hill David Hunt, Orange County City of Durham Higgins Spooner, “Downtown Raleigh NC at night” (2018)

    • Triangle Region, NC Regional Resilience Assessment
    smoke clouds over a forest

  • Photo attributed to USWS Souteast Region. This work is in the public domain. No endorsement implied.

    • Implementing Interventions for Heat-related Illness and Wildfire Smoke Exposure in North Carolina

  • Self-service collard patch near Carthage, North Carolina. Image credit: Donald Lee Pardue. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), via Flickr

    • Developing an Early Warning System to Prevent Heat Illness

  • View of Las Cruces, New Mexico, backed by the Organ Mountains National Monument. By Jpawela, own work. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Catalyzing Investment and Building Capacity in Las Cruces

  • The sun sets over the Queensborough Bridge, New York City. Image credit: Chris Goldberg. CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Protecting People from Sweltering City Summers

  • Sunset by Hamad M., cropped and rotated. CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

    • Bracing for Heat

  • Michael Montoya, Sovereign Nations Service Corps, Mescalero Apache Tribe. Used with permission.

    • Mescalero Apache Tribe Adapts to a Warmer and Drier Climate

  • Lee Amoroso, U.S. Geological Survey

    • Navajo Nation: Hotter, Drier Climate Puts Sand Dunes on the Move
    County of Santa Clara Climate Adaptation Guidebook cover
    County of Santa Clara, CA Climate Adaptation Guidebook
    grassland with snowy mountains

  • Angela Burgess, USFWS

    • Wind River Reservation Drought Preparedness
    house flooding in river

  • Photo attributed to McGhiever. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Creating Resilient Water Utilities Program
    aerial view of alaskan islands

  • This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Relocating the Village of Kivalina, Alaska Due to Coastal Erosion
    island with ice formations

  • This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Relocating the Village of Newtok, Alaska due to Coastal Erosion
    village marker and rock formation

  • CAKE, Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska

    • Relocating the Native Village of Shishmaref, Alaska Due to Coastal Erosion
    river with mountains and trees

  • Photo attributed to Royalbroil. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • U.S. Global Change Research Program