Feds Unveil $1 Billion in Wildfire Defense Grants
A $1 billion Community Wildfire Defense Grant program was recently unveiled by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The newly launched initiative is intended to help at-risk communities to plan for and mitigate wildfire effects. The legislation that Vice President...
Roads, Bridges and Wildfire Risk: Measuring Vulnerability and Mitigating Infrastructure Failure
As the frequency and severity of wildfires in the U.S. grows, researchers are scrambling to measure and identify risk to infrastructure. It’s not just wildfires that can damage transportation infrastructure; it’s the flooding that comes afterward. More...
Weather-Related Disasters Creating Need for Public, Private-Sector Services
Climate change has been the cause of immeasurable damage over the last few decades, and there is no end in sight. In addition to the tragic loss of lives, natural disasters have impacted at least some part of the infrastructure in every region of the country. To halt...
New Data Tracks Extreme Heat by Census Tract
Researchers at UC San Diego have compiled a database of temperature by census tract, which, when combined with other census data, allowed the researchers to study the correlation between heat and various socioeconomic metrics like poverty. Their findings were...Urban Trees Hold Clues to Climate Change Impact
A group of researchers in the Pacific Northwest are collecting data from trees in urban areas, hoping to use the data to predict the impact of climate change on urban tree populations. From Portland State University: Portland State University graduate and postdoctoral...