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Most of women covered by NHLP now have access to fresh vegetables for their meals and can even supply their surplus to be sold in the local market.

STATEMENT: Fourth National Climate Assessment Confirms Climate Change Will Affect All Regions and All Sectors of U.S. Economy

  • Air Quality
  • Water Security
  • fires
  • climate science
  • natural infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • health
  • climate impacts
  • water pollution
  • pollution
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
  • Air Quality
  • Water Security
  • fires
  • climate science
  • natural infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • health
  • climate impacts
  • water pollution
  • pollution
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean

Keeping Heads Above Water: Lessons for Building Resilience After Flooding in South Asia and Texas

  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution
Escapees from hurricane flooding.
  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution

RELEASE: Bipartisan City Officials Call on Federal Government to Support Local Resilience to Climate Change

  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

If Climate Change Is the Existential Crisis of Our Age, Why Isn’t it Getting More Attention?

  • climate science
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • food security
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
California drought
  • climate science
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • food security
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

ADVISORY: How the U.S. Military is Responding to Sea Level Rise

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise

New Studies Underscore Threats of Sea Level Rise. Will National Leaders Act?

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
South Beach flooding
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

Secretary Kerry Warns: Virginia Sea Level Rise Indicative of Bigger Risks Facing Nation

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
Secretary of State John Kerry laid out the connection between climate change and national security.
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

RELEASE: Bipartisan Lawmakers Call on Presidential Candidates to Address Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise

  • U.S. Climate
  • floods
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
  • U.S. Climate
  • floods
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

How Is Sea Level Rise Affecting Your Region?

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
Shoreline counties are home to more than 123 million Americans, and account for nearly half the U.S. GDP. Image by WRI
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

Rising Tides in the United States

  • data
  • Climate
  • sea level rise
  • data
  • Climate
  • sea level rise

Coastal Community Leaders Aim for Strategy on Rising Seas, Extreme Weather

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • Climate Resilience
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
North Charleston flooding from Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. Photo Credit: Ryan Johnson/Flickr
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • Climate Resilience
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean

Obama’s Florida Visit Will Hopefully Bridge Local, State and National Climate Action

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
Flooding in downtown Miami. Photo by carvalho/Flickr
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

California Sleepwalks into Water Crisis

  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • natural resources
  • U.S. policy
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
California's drought has dragged on for four years. Photo by Yana Edwin Murphy/Flickr
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • natural resources
  • U.S. policy
  • Freshwater
  • water risk

Tar Sands Threaten World’s Largest Boreal Forest

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
Canada’s boreal forests feature mountain ranges; forested plains, bogs, and peatlands; coniferous and mixed forests; and millions of waterways. Photo credit: Ken Owen, Flickr
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels

Sea Level Rise Cuts Across Political Divide in Norfolk, Virginia

  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy
Communities in the Hampton Roads region--such as Norfolk, Va., shown here--are at the front lines of sea level rise. Photo credit: Bud, Flickr
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
  • U.S. policy

Florida Already Feeling Effects of Climate Change

  • Energy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
Sea-level rise is a threat that is particularly acute for Florida, with its low elevation and 1,200 miles of coastline. Photo credit: maxstrz/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset