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Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...

Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and res...

The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, ...

The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is an interagency program, established by the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990, mandated ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton...

Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental eventsslowly...

Interest in decarbonizing various sectors of the U.S. economy has produced a rich body of scholarly research, policy studies, and practitioner repo...

Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer ...

The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages - that is, the monetized v...

More intense heat waves, extended wildfire seasons and other escalating impacts of climate change have made it more important than ever to fill kno...

The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safegua...

The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and ...

The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), th...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...

Strategically moving communities and infrastructureincluding homes and businessesaway from environmentally high-risk areas, such as vulnerable coas...

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually sinc...

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. Th...

Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as...

The Update to the Strategic Plan (USP) is a supplement to the Ten-Year Strategic Plan of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) completed...

Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By t...

Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurric...

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The...