Resilience

Prolonged drought, severe sea-level rise, dramatic flooding, raging wildfires. Climate change is having tangible impacts in regions across the country. Here’s what the models are telling us.

As hurricane season approaches, residents should be thinking about ways to be ready. Building a go bag with all the essential items in one spot is a great way to make sure you're not caught off guard.

Needs will vary: Children and grandparents will require different supplies, and everyone will have to take a different approach depending on whether you stay home, head to a shelter or go to someone's house.

Anchorage Fire Chief Doug Schrage instituted a municipality-wide burn ban last week. The ban came after the National Weather Service issued a "red flag warning" on Friday, prompted by hot and windy weather.

The Wisconsin NERC warned Wednesday that parts of the upper Midwest face a “high risk” of energy emergencies under certain conditions, such as extreme heat or unexpected generator outages.

The “urban intelligence” software and mapping company helps public agencies prioritize climate resilience projects, among other tasks. The fresh capital will go toward tools addressing climate vulnerability.

El Dorado County government officials released a five-minute video Tuesday in which residents plead with President Biden to grant “individual assistance” to survivors of last summer’s disastrous Caldor Fire.

The days after the tornado were filled with remarkable stories of park residents who rode out the storm amid crumbling walls, flying debris and golf ball-sized hail. The massive cleanup attracted hundreds of volunteers from across the Midwest.

Grid conditions are better than they were this weekend, experts say. That’s because five of the six power plants that went offline Friday are back online. Those five make up about 2,500 megawatts of the almost 3,000 that were lost.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-11th Dist., would provide new funding for the NOAA to conduct studies and collect data that take into account the impacts of climate change.

The nurses, as well as their administrators and educators, are not letting the moment pass without making some changes to better equip nurses physically and emotionally for the job.

Scott Evans, Atlantic City's fire chief and emergency management coordinator, said the city saw moderate erosion toward the area in front of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Ocean Casino Resort.

Since late March, California’s case rate has nearly tripled and the Bay Area — which historically experienced a lower case rate than the rest of the state — has emerged as a COVID-19 hot spot.

Since the New York State Wastewater Surveillance dashboard went live in January, some county health officials, including in Albany, have used it to alert communities of elevated coronavirus rates.

The Huebner Creek Flood Mitigation Project would remove several properties from the 100-year floodplain along the creek — by realigning and widening the channel in the creek — and provide for erosion control.

"From flooding in the east to power outages in the west, to record April snowfall depleting snow removal budgets and hitting ranchers hard during calving season, this April has been an extremely challenging month."

Despite the movement upward within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention community levels, there are no plans to reintroduce past mitigation requirements in King County, Wash.

The site has an abundance of information for women interested in emergency management and related fields, including a resume section, a data section, articles and lists of colleges and universities for training.