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Researchers around the globe have been investigating the relationship between terrestrial water availability and plants, but more work is needed to integrate knowledge and data across different scales and diverse bodies of knowledge.

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To characterize the supply and demand of climate information and improve how climate information is accessed and used in a variety of U.S. sectors, AGCI interviewed and surveyed more than 400 coastal managers, heat practitioners, transportation planners, and practitioners who rely on climate information to inform and support the decisions and actions their work entails. This report synthesizes the insights from our research across sectors and institutional settings, drawing on both literature and lived experience to consider how decision support and climate services can be further refined.

More people are being exposed to dangerous wildfire smoke from increasingly severe wildfires in the Western US. As forest managers move from 100% fire suppression to mixed management techniques, including prescribed fires, recent research explores the efficacy and tradeoffs of alternate fire management techniques at protecting both forest and human health.

The main driver of biodiversity loss is land conversion, so one solution is to protect land in a range of ways, from creating nature preserves to establishing policies to stop deforestation. But now climate change is amplifying the problem and complicating the solution.

This FAQ was developed for the WUCA CMIP6 Working Group as guidance for water managers with little or no previous experience with CMIP6 and other climate-model datasets. The goal was to develop a dozen or so highly relevant questions — and clear responses — to aid in the use and interpretation of CMIP6 datasets, with a focus on the contiguous United States. Each question in the FAQ has a “short answer” (1–2 paragraphs) and a “long answer” (2–5 pages), including figures where appropriate, recommendations for further reading, and other references. A glossary and reference list are also available at the end of the document.

Visit the CMIP6 FAQ page on the WUCA website.

Beginning as snowmelt from Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River—often called the Lifeline of the West— supplies water to over 40 million people in…

AGCI spoke with glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre, about the speed and scale of vanishing ice as a global change issue, and the critical need to make the science of vanishing ice accessible and relevant to policymakers.

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SOAK is a vibrant community of social scientists, engaged researchers, and practitioners who use critical scholarship to systematically study how science is produced and used in decisions and actions. Their goal is to understand what causes scientific knowledge to become “actionable.”