BACKGROUND Climate disasters are on the rise, with devastating effects on communities,
built infrastructure, and ecosystems. Between 2015 and 2020, the United States has seen an …

The window of opportunity for climate adaptation action is closing fast because of warming
and development trends. Yet efforts toward enhancing adaptation policy, implementation …

Informing the extensive preparations needed to manage climate risks, avoid damages, and
realize emerging opportunities is a grand challenge for climate change science. US …

In recent years, an increasing number of local governments are recognizing the impact of
climate change on different urban sectors. This has led many to pursue climate adaptation …

Current levels of global warming (Haustein et al. 2017) have already intensified heat waves,
droughts, and floods, with many recent events exhibiting evidence of being exacerbated by …

Scientific evidence accumulating over the past decade documents that climate change
impacts are already being experienced in the US Northeast. Policy-makers and resource …

Climate change impacts are already being experienced in every region of the United States
and every part of the world—most severely in Arctic regions—and adaptation is needed …

The sustainability of life on Earth is under increasing threat due to human-induced climate
change. This perilous change in the Earth's climate is caused by increases in carbon dioxide …

Global urbanization over the last century has concentrated people, infrastructure, and
economic activity in cities, pushing them to the front lines of damaging impacts of climate …

Across the United States, impacts of climate change are already evident. Heat waves have
become more frequent and intense, cold extremes have become less frequent, and patterns …