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Recent News and Reports

• The NWF Blog about Community Level Flood ​Resilience and iCAR
• CRIS (Community Resiliency Information System) is highlighted by Argonne National Laboratory
• iCAR on the local news! The Weekly Challenger for organizing town hall to foster climate resiliency
• iCAR and CRIS on local news outlet - The Weekly Challenger
• Town Hall conversation to address climate resiliency in south St. Petersburg as part of annual iCAR workshop
• New Data Reveals Hidden Flood Risk Across America

• Is your property a flood risk? New tool shows millions are, including entire Florida towns

• USF Lands $50K from AT&T for Climate Change Research
• AT&T Awards USF St. Petersburg a Climate Resiliency Grant for Crowdsourced Community Project
• AT&T Funds Resiliency Research at UM, USF
• Fight Over Building in St. Pete’s Flood-risk Neighborhoods Gets Delayed Again
• Cost of Climate Change: Nuisance Flooding
• Hurricane Michael: What if it had hit Tampa Bay
• Don’t Condemn People Who Don’t Evacuate for Hurricane Florence
• Surrendering to Rising Seas
• Urbanists Should Not Ignore the Slow Creep of Climate Change on Resilience
• New Satellite Data Confirm Accelerated Sea Level Rise
• Turning up the Heat on Organic Matter to Track Carbon
• Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
• Despite Rising Seas and Bigger Storms, Florida’s Land Rush Endures
• iCAR Professor Awarded $1.33 million Grant to Study Climate Change and Anthropogenic influences on Coastal Wetlands
• Professor Donny Smoak visited Puerto Rico and Paris
• Southeastern US saw rapid sea-level rise
• Preparing for flood risk as sea levels rise
• State of Environmental and Climate Justice in Florida:A Human and Civil Rights Based Analysis
• Tampa Bay's Coming Storm – By Washington Post
• Communities and Experts Collaborate for Climate Resilience
• Sea level rise: Miami and Atlantic City fight to stay above water
• Professor Donny Smoak visited Mexico
• Professor Donny Smoak visited the Southern Cross University
• Miami is Flooding – The New Yorker
• Half a Billion People and Sea Level Rise, Mapped and Visualized
• Risk Quantification for Sustaining Coastal Military Installation Assets and Mission Capabilities
• Florida Center for Environmental Studies at FAU
  
  • SE Florida Regional Climate Change Compact (2017) Regional Climate Action Plan (RCAP)
  • FIU’s Rising Seas Video
  • US Climate Resilience Toolkit – info and tools to understand and address climate risks
  • FAU’s Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning program rated a top value