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    • How New Battery Capacity Helped California Avoid Another Blackout
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    • Impacts of Herbicide Brush Management on Hydrology & Sedimentation at Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed

  • Sub-sample of image: 2007 drought at Lake Lanier, by Tom Wilson.

    • Drought in the ACF River Basin
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    Phoenix, AZ Climate Action Plan

  • Image: Aerial View of Downtown Blacksburg. © Town of Blacksburg. Used with permission

    • An Inland City Prepares for a Changing Climate
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    Miami Forever Climate Ready Strategy
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    Tallahassee Community Resilience Plan
    coral reef

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    • Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies Project
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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

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    • 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

  • Wall in San Angelo, Texas. By Sascha Petersen, Adaptation International. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

    • When Weather Becomes a Problem: Motivating Resilience Action in Texas

  • The Coleman Theater in downtown Miami, Oklahoma. By TheWhitePelican, own work. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Eighth Graders and Emergency Preparedness in Oklahoma

  • 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