U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

disasters. Storm-driven flooding and erosion cause millions of dollars of property damage in Alaska Native Villages, damaging or destroying homes, public buildings, and airport runways. Because these ...

to rest on, walruses have to "haul-out" on shore, impacting subsistence harvest of walrus by Alaska Natives. A reduction in sea ice is altering habitats along Arctic coastlines. Some of the most recog ...

protect grid equipment threatened by erosion. Mining . The Alaska Miners Association indicates that there is interest in expanding operations of the Red Dog Mine in ...

excess ice to melt. The top photo shows Pederson Glacier on the Kenai Peninsula of southeastern Alaska in 1917. The bottom photo, taken from the same vantage point, shows what was left of the glacier ...

to create novel conditions for dramatically increased rates of coastal erosion. In interior Alaska, effects of permafrost thaw can present challenges for infrastructure by reducing the stability of so ...

22 November 2016 - 12:52pm. Browse Regions :. Regions . * Alaska and the Arctic. * Great Lakes. * Hawai'i and Pacific Islands. * Midwest. * Northeast. * Northern Great Plain ...

shorelines to rapid coastal erosion. For most of the year, landfast sea ice has buffered Alaska's northern coastline from waves, winds, and currents. Current observations and future projections show t ...

been an increase in the length of the frost-free season over the contiguous United States and Alaska, relative to the 1979-2017 average. The bars on the graph show the difference between the number of ...

22 November 2016 - 12:48pm. Browse Regions :. Regions . * Alaska and the Arctic. * Great Lakes. * Hawai'i and Pacific Islands. * Midwest. * Northeast. * Northern Great Plain ...

22 November 2016 - 12:35pm. Browse Regions :. Regions . * Alaska and the Arctic. * Great Lakes. * Hawai'i and Pacific Islands. * Midwest. * Northeast. * Northern Great Plain ...