Select a state to learn about its most prevalent climate impacts. Climate Nexus provides strategic communications services and products to drive substantive and lasting change on climate, energy, and water issues.

SOURCE: Climate Nexus

This online visualization tool creates a collection of user-defined maps that show the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. The maps can be saved, downloaded, or shared to communicate flood exposure and potential impacts. In addition, the tool provides guidance for using these maps to engage community members and stakeholders.

SOURCE: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

This interactive map shows areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding. It combines the most advanced global model of coastal elevations with the latest projections for future flood levels.

SOURCE: Climate Central

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center (MSC) is the official public source for flood hazard information produced in support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Use the MSC to find your official flood map, access a range of other flood hazard products, and take advantage of tools for better understanding flood risk.

SOURCE: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. 

SOURCE: Elke Mertens

This guide provides a brief introduction to physical impacts of climate change on estuaries and a review of on-the-ground adaptation options available to coastal managers to reduce their systems' vulnerability to climate change impacts.

SOURCE: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The fourth part of this series, Primer Four focuses on options for response to rising waters, ranging from persisting in place to managed retreat.

SOURCE: Colleen S. L. Mercer Clarke, Alexander J. Clarke

A graphic guide to wildfire-adaptive design for landscape architects, planners, and urban designers

SOURCE: XL Lab at SWA

This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. 

SOURCE: Elke Mertens

3D modeling software for urban cooling and climate-adaptive planning

SOURCE: ENVI-met

This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. 

SOURCE: Elke Mertens

This interactive mapping program is designed to help forest managers match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information. The climates of the planting sites can be chosen to represent current climates, or future climates based on selected climate change scenarios.

SOURCE: US Forest Service, Oregon State University, Conservation Biology Institute

This statewide database recommends tree species for planting in Texas and has been updated to include varieties that are more likely to flourish under future climate scenarios.

SOURCE: Texas A&M

SelecTree is an easily searchable database of urban trees identified in California. Users can search by tree characteristics, site conditions, or species. Users can search for species that have been observed in USDA Hardiness Zones more like those anticipated in the future.

SOURCE: Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute at Cal Poly

The California Urban Forest Inventory includes more than seven million trees across more than 500 species and includes information about diversity, geographic extent, native ranges, DBH distribution, and water ratings.

SOURCE: Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute at Cal Poly

The Global Urban Tree Inventory (GUTI) is a compilation of datasets on 4,734 tree species found in 473 urban areas across 73 countries. The data spans 21 of 29 Koppen–Geiger climatic zones, and all 19 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations global ecofloristic zones.

SOURCE: Alessandro Ossola, Malin Hoeppner, Hugh Munro Burley, Rachael V. Gallagher, Linda J. Beaumont, Michelle R. Leishman

Map of Life provides ‘best-possible’ species distribution information and species lists for any geographic area. 

SOURCE: Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change 

iNaturalist is a worldwide online network of biodiversity information that provides access to millions of citizen science observations of plant and animal biodiversity. It functions as a crowdsourced species identification system and organism recurrence recording tool to help understand the presence and prevalence of plant and animal species at a location-specific level. The most reliable data from iNaturalist and other sources may be downloaded at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 

SOURCE: California Academy of Sciences and National Geographic Society  

eBird is a database of citizen science bird observations that allows for tracking of bird species distribution and abundance worldwide. The online database is freely accessible and made possible by millions of bird observers across the world uploading information from field observations. 

SOURCE: Cornell Lab of Ornithology  

This open-source tool allows users to conduct a Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) measuring a site’s habitat condition or a specified natural plant community’s condition on a site. A user specifies a region within the United States and enters basic information about a specific site such as date, location, and weather on the day of observation. The user then uploads an inventory assessment of plants observed on site, with plants added individually or in bulk using scientific names or common names. Plants on site may also be documented using transect/plot assessment methods. Once a plant list is completed, an Excel file of results is downloaded that summarizes the Conservativism-based metrics. These types of metrics use the estimated probability that a plant would have been found in that area before human occupation as an indicator for habitat quality, including Total Mean C and Floristic Quality Index. The open-source database also allows users to upload their FQA and plant lists for public viewing.

SOURCE: Openlands, Will Freyman

Use this tool to create customized pollinator-friendly plant lists for your region and requirements. You can create your plant list by first selecting your region, using your zip code or selecting your location on a map. Then, filter plants based on your pollinator planting needs.

SOURCE: Pollinator Partnership

Search by region for native plant and seed suppliers, publications, and other resources to aid in the planning, establishment, restoration, and maintenance of pollinator habitats.

SOURCE: Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

Enter information about location, soils, aridity, and seasonal bloom time to get custom plant lists and links to local nurseries and providers.

SOURCE: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Input US zip code or Canadian postal code and get an ecoregional guide to pollinator-friendly plants that are tailored to your specific area.

SOURCE: Pollinator Partnership

This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. 

SOURCE: Elke Mertens

This toolkit of metrics for observation and survey tools can be used to evaluate diversity and social mixing in public spaces like plazas, parks, squares, and streets. The tools focus on public life metrics especially related to the social use of space including: intercept surveys to collect data on individuals; observational analysis to collect data on volume, age/gender, duration of stay, and sociability; and big data for macro-trends. Each list of metrics and tools provides basic instructions and limitations along with several examples from real-world projects.

SOURCE: Gehl Institute

The third part of this series, Primer Three provides an overview of opportunities to create resilient communities that enhance public well-being.

SOURCE: Colleen S. L. Mercer Clarke, Alexander J. Clarke