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Verizon Climate Resilience Prize Winner Spotlight: Perimeter

In partnership with GreenBiz and Resilient Cities Network, the Verizon Climate Resilience Prize empowers companies that are using advanced technology and have demonstrated results of their climate resilience solutions with funding and business support so they can scale and reach more in-need communities. Based in Berkeley, California, the Perimeter Platform … [continued]

ORNL’s Ben Sulman and Shannon Jones at a mangrove habitat in Port Aransas, Texas, where scientists are gaining a better understanding of how this plant species may survive climate change. Credit: Ben Sulman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Firsthand Fieldwork: Getting Mangroves into Coastal Models for Better Climate Prediction

To better understand important dynamics at play in flood-prone coastal areas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists working on simulations of Earth’s carbon and nutrient cycles paid a visit to experimentalists gathering data in a Texas wetland. There, the return of a key mangrove species holds important clues to current and … [continued]