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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. [...]

November 9, 2020

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. [...]

November 9, 2020

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. [...]

October 27, 2020

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Freshwater & Drought Freshwater resources are essential to life on Pacific Islands. Water is needed for human consumption, as well as for [...]

August 24, 2016

Projected changes in location of forest cover in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge and Alakai Swamp, Hawai‘i

Figure 4-11 Projected changes in the location of the forest cover under current conditions and with a 2°C warming of the climate. Yellow lines [...]

Average primary production estimates for 1998-2017 and 2080-2099, and time series of primary production in the subtropical biome

Figure 4-3 Mean depth-integrated primary production, (a) 1998–2017, (b) 2080–2099, (c) time series of the area with primary production, <0.3 [...]

Average sea level pressure in Northern Hemisphere summer and winter

Figure 1-3 Northern hemisphere summer (June–August) versus winter (December–February) plots of the annual average atmospheric pressure at sea [...]

Developing Very High Resolution Climate Models and Projections for the Main Hawaiian Islands

Summary A first step in helping prepare society for climate change is to develop predictions of future conditions with sufficient spatial detail to [...]

September 17, 2015

Synergistic Impacts of Ocean Acidification and Climate Change on Coral Reefs

Summary How do ocean acidification and light impact coral bleaching? This project develops models that predict changes in coral growth rates in [...]

Coral reef resilience to climate change in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Summary Coral reefs are affected by diverse environmental factors, but individual reefs vary in their resilience, or capacity to recover from [...]

December 2, 2014

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