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[…]
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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[…]
ISeeChange South Florida Ambassador Program
Calling on all South Florida Residents! Give your community a stronger voice in climate solutions. Climate change is a threat multiplier — increasing individuals’ exposure and sensitivity to extreme weather, flooding, sea level rise, and extreme heat. This multiplier effect is particularly burdensome and disproportionately falls on frontline and underserved[…]
Staying cool inside during heat waves
As heat waves get increasingly severe and frequent, we are all learning how to adapt together — as communities and individuals. When it’s hot inside and out, it can make focusing and sleeping difficult and can be deadly. From creative, unique solutions to the tried and true, we asked ISeeChangers[…]
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[…]
After a dry 2020, New Orleanians get a triple dose of monsoon flooding in one week
The summer of 2021 is already off to a floody start in New Orleans. Three times this week (on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday) ISeeChangers documented flooding throughout the city during afternoon storms. Monday’s rain event, according to ISeeChange rain gauge hosts in Gentilly, Lakeview, and Midcity was between a 5[…]
Five ways to garden while the climate changes
What can your garden teach you about climate change? A lot! Planting season is upon many ISeeChangers in the northern hemisphere, and with it come the fingerprints of climate change as plants try to manage new conditions. It’s important to support plant communities through change as they also help combat[…]
Dreaming up climate change solutions on ISeeChange
As they document the impacts of climate change in their communities, ISeeChangers also share ideas for solutions. When you have ideas for solutions — from individual ways you prepare yourself for weather hazards to big dreams you have for how your whole neighborhood or city can improve — share them in a[…]
How can you make heat visible this summer?
In many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, hot temperatures have already arrived or they are right around the corner. Whenever you start to feel the heat, increasingly severe and prolonged heatwaves are a common side-effect of climate change for everyone around the world. But just because heat is something we[…]
Track how spring is changing this Citizen Science Month
Want to do your part for Citizen Science this spring? You can pitch in by serving as an amateur climate scientist. When you record your experiences on ISeeChange, you are contributing to a global record of change and providing people in your community and around the world with information that[…]
New Orleanians team up to document effects of summer heat with stories and sensors
New Orleans, Louisiana— Starting this month, ISeeChange, the New Orleans Health Department, CAPA Strategies, and NOAA are teaming up to collect stories, create dialogue, and map extreme heat with sensors in our city. This summer, the COVID-19 pandemic is restricting access to cool public spaces like libraries and pools. The[…]
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