American Sāmoa Faces Health Threats, Stronger Storms, and Challenges from Climate Change: New Report
The major challenges, including coral reef decline, coastal flooding, and health risks, are detailed in a new PIRCA report. Read more [...]
Communities & Cultures
Climate Change in American Sāmoa: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors
Key climate change issues affecting American Sāmoa include human health risks, stronger cyclones, coral reef death, and coastal flooding. [...]
Climate Change in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors
Key climate change issues affecting the CNMI include more destructive typhoons, threats to ocean ecosystems, and mental and physical health risks. [...]
Climate Change Brings Challenges for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands—Read the 2021 Assessment
Climate-related challenges facing the CNMI include declining coral reef health, stronger typhoons, and human health risks. Read more... [...]
Climate Change in Guam: Indicators and Considerations in Key Sectors
Key climate change issues affecting Guam include threats to human health, risks to freshwater resources, increasing wildfire, and the potential for damage to infrastructure caused by future sea level rise and stronger typhoons. [...]
New Report: Guam Faces More Heat, Stronger Typhoons, and Water Shortages
Hotter weather, risks to freshwater supplies, coral reef death, and stronger typhoons are among the major challenges detailed in the new report from PIRCA on climate change in Guam. [...]
Explore the 2020 PIRCA Report for the Republic of Palau
Climate Change in Palau is the first in a series of new PIRCA reports offering a closer look at climate change impacts in the Pacific Islands. [...]
Climate Change in Palau: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors
Key climate change issues affecting Palau include hotter conditions, stronger typhoons, threats to coastal infrastructure, and declining ocean ecosystem health. Climate change is expected to disrupt many aspects of life in Palau. [...]
Fourth National Climate Assessment: In Hawai‘i and the Pacific Islands, Climate Change Means Billions of Dollars of Coastal Damage, Widespread Coral Death and Human Health Risks
The chapter on Hawai‘i and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands appears in Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, the most significant US report to assess the effects of climate change on the US economy and communities. [...]
Fourth National Climate Assessment: Chapter 27 – Hawaiʻi and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century. [...]
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