U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tribal Community Partners with Researchers to Monitor Food and Climate. Residents of a rural Alaska village are studying their environment to understand and protect their food. Their research partners ...

A Community Effort Stems Runoff to Safeguard Corals in Puerto Rico. In Culebra, Puerto Rico, the community used green infrastructure to decrease coastal erosion and mitigate damage to their near-shore ...

And the Trees Will Last Forever. In northern Wisconsin, tribal foresters from the Menominee Nation are working to speed regeneration of forest areas that have been treated for invasive diseases. Their ...

How Vulnerable Are Salmon to a Changing Climate? Researchers in Washington's South Fork Nooksack River are seeking to better understand the potential impacts of climate change on water quality and sal ...

Asheville Makes a Plan for Climate Resilience. This western North Carolina city is using the Steps to Resilience to proactively plan for expected climate change impacts. * Home . An ...

Moving Forward Together: Building Tribal Resiliency and Partnerships. The four member tribes of the Upper Snake River Tribes Foundation collaborated on a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, resul ...

The Karuk's Innate Relationship with Fire: Adapting to Climate Change on the Klamath. Members of the Karuk Tribe in northern California maintain that the age-old tradition of prescribed burning holds ...

Battling Blazes Across Borders. Wildfire is a naturally occurring phenomenon that doesn't recognize political boundaries. When large fires rage in parts of North America, the countries of Canada, the ...

Recognizing and Responding to Drought on Pacific Islands. Compared to other extreme events, drought is a relatively quiet disaster. On Pacific Islands, where water supply depends very directly on prec ...

Assessing Climate Risks in a National Estuary. Stakeholders of the Morro Bay National Estuary Program in California worked with resources from the EPA's Climate Ready Estuaries program to identify the ...