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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 seven…

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.

Read the paper here

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.”

The Guidebook utilizes data from AGCI’s soil moisture monitoring network in the Roaring Fork Watershed to explore how and when soil moisture data can inform water supply planning.