With a new investment from Knight Foundation, ISeeChange is using artificial intelligence to provide better data on the impacts of climate change to inform how Miami approaches the issue Miami, Fla. — ISeeChange, an engagement platform that empowers communities to collect data on flooding, heat, pollution and potential local solutions, is[…]
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Help track flooding and climate change on North Carolina’s coast
ISeeChange is teaming up with the North Carolina Coastal Federation and Green Stream to build a network of flood watchers in Wilmington, North Carolina. Between sunny-day flooding, hurricanes, and beach erosion, coastal North Carolinians have first-hand knowledge of the flooding challenges the region is facing. ISeeChange, Green Stream Technologies and[…]
Science Friday Q&A: Community building, invasive species, climate and disability and more
On April 14, ISeeChange founder and CEO Julia Kumari Drapkin, community member Kathlean Wolf and researcher Tom Herrington joined Science Friday for a livestream conversation to celebrate Citizen Science month. We didn’t get to answer every question during the webinar, so we wanted to add some more answers here. Answers[…]
Climate change is making springtime weird. Vivaldi’s music shows how.
The season’s natural rhythms are out of whack By Sara Peach Note: This climate change advice column was originally published by our partner Yale Climate Connections and adapted for ISeeChange. Dear Sara, I would like to read your prediction of the effects of climate change on the traditional four weather[…]
Is summer over? (Take a picture to tell us!)
At the Thomas Starr King Middle School across the street from me (Go Lions!), students return to classes before Labor Day. They’re among a growing number of kids who mourn summer’s death in August…unlike in Virginia, where the King’s Dominion law protects the rights of teenagers to ride roller coasters[…]
#HarlemHeat: As Temperatures Climb, the Elderly, Frail and Poor Are Put at Risk
ISeeChange is working with AdaptNY and public radio station WNYC on a project to observe heat impacts in Harlem, NY. Check out this story from our friends at AdaptNY about the ways hot weather harms the health of New York residents. And we’re sharing below – with permission – a report from reporter[…]
You’re feeling it! (Not the Bern…the heat.)
And not just everyday heat. In big cities, from coast to coast, #ISeeChange observers have been dealing with extreme heat. Carlos Jusino reports from New York: “My cell phone battery staying at 99% all day would be fantastic!! The temperature at 99-degrees all day in NYC however not so much,”[…]
Harlem Heat investigation launches with #ISeeChange as partner
We’re really excited to be a part of AdaptNY’s just-launched #HarlemHeat investigation. With the help of citizen observers, a coalition led by AdaptNY and WNYC will look into what it’s like to live in apartments without air conditioning in a warming world, in an urban area where heat impacts send[…]
#ISeeChange reports on migration, drought for WBEZ’s Heat of the Moment
Julia Kumari Drapkin, ISeeChange’s founder, has reported a story about the way that changing climate conditions in Honduras have driven two brothers to make very different choices about their lives. She met Noel Martinez in the Broadmoor section of New Orleans: A river of moisture from Central America that meteorologists nicknamed[…]
Synchronicity (not The Police album)
This week we’re sharing stories from our media partners in Colorado and Pennsylvania. KVNF and the Allegheny Front were unexpectedly in sync when they each chose to cover one of the key phenomena that ISeeChange helps observe: phenological asynchronicity. That phrase doesn’t come up much in normal conversation (unless you’re[…]
A Longer Growing Season
Tracking the impact of climate change means paying attention to shifts in growing seasons for farmers and gardeners. Observers from the western slope of Colorado thought the growing season was especially long this past year. Jake Ryan of KVNF in Paonia, Colorado looked into their questions.
Shark Bait
Fishing right along the Delaware coast isn’t usually great during the summer but 2015 was quite different. Rick King, a local fisherman who posts fishing reports on a site called delaware-surf-fishing dot com noted that “fishing was off the hook”. However, as Eli Chen of Delaware Public Media reported, along[…]
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