By McKenna Chow On October 4th, community members from the St. Bernard neighborhood gathered in the library of McDonogh 35. City officials, engineers, and other local leaders discussed the exciting new sustainability initiatives that will make up St. Bernard Campus of the Gentilly Resilience District. These common goals brought together[…]
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Climate from Coast to Coast:
Deluges, Heat Waves, and Wildfire Smoke By: Natasha Gross “Rainstorm in Ocean City, NJ along with rainbows.”– Joanne Baio, Ocean City, NJ As we embark on another week, it’s time to delve into the latest climate events our ISeeChange community has been reporting across the United States. Another week in[…]
A record-setting week: air quality, heat, and drought across the U.S.
By: Natasha Gross Smoke from the expansive wildfires in Canada continues to cast an intense haze over the United States: Chicago, Detroit, New York, City and Washington D.C.are seeing poor air quality—some ranked as having the worst air quality in the world. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, along with[…]
A record-setting storm in South Florida
Flooding season in South Florida typically begins mid-May, but not in 2023. With the Atlantic Ocean 2°C hotter than average for this time of year, spring rain storms have been remarkably intense. The night of April 9, 2023, a thunderstorm brought heavy rain over the greater Miami area, dropping 5.23[…]
New England Facing New Challenges
Picture in your head: extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. What U.S. landscapes or regions come to mind? Maybe arid forests or chaparral. Southern California or New Mexico. But in the summer of 2022, this was a New Englander’s reality. Communities across New England were reporting a range of impacts this[…]
New Orleans: Building Community Climate Resilience
It’s been a hard-won quiet end of August for us in Louisiana. We’re keeping our eyes out for tropical activity, but so far forecasts have been unusually calm. Neighborhood partners and community groups are far from quiet. We’re seeing buzzing and inspiring activity across New Orleans as we learn to[…]
How ISeeChange is tracking flooding changes in Miami, Florida
By Aaron J. DeMayo, Future Vision Studios Patterns are found throughout nature, some are visually apparent, and others can be found over cycles following the lunar or a calendar year. Tools like ISeeChange create and enable citizen scientists to track, share, and learn about consistencies and variations occurring within their[…]
How is climate change affecting your summer fun?
Ahead of the 4th of July, we asked ISeeChangers to tell us how climate change is affecting their summer outdoors time. Here’s what the community shared: Extreme heat putting backpacking plans into question: This week has been extremely hot here in central NJ. We are able to do less outside when[…]
An early-June heatwave stresses ISeeChangers and their plants
An early-June heatwave is bringing temperatures in the high 80s and 90s across the Northern U.S. from the Dakotas to Maine. In addition to the heat, many parts of the Upper Midwest and New England are dealing with ongoing drought. As the climate changes, heatwaves are expected to get longer[…]
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