Destinations
Our Featured Destinations
North America
Alaska and the Arctic
New Orleans
Manhattan & Wall Street
Seattle
The Western US: Colorado, Montana, California, Arizona
Small Islands
Hawa’ii
The South Pacific
The Maldives
South America
Bolivia
Europe
Pan-European backpacking tours for students
Pan-European food and agriculture tours
Asia
Jakarta, Indonesia
Swat Valley, Pakistan
Africa
Egypt and the Nile Delta
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan & Kenya
Summaries of climate change impacts on US Cities
Grist slideshow and summary of climate change on US cities
“Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States”, 2009 report by US Global Change Research Program (13 MB)
Global impacts of climate change
Grist essay by Lester Brown on climate refugees
Another Lester Brown essay – this is an excerpt from the book “World on the Edge.”
General overview of climate impacts, with lots of maps and illustrations, by Scott A. Mandia, SUNY Suffolk County College.
The Nature Conservancy’s summary of global climate change impacts
Joe Romm has a great (and scary!) rundown of the potential impacts on his well-known blog, Climate Progress
Maps and Historical Data
Searchable maps / animations of sea level rise from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets.
Before & after glacier photo database from the National Snow & Ice Data Center
Historical sea level trend data from NOAA, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
How different places are dealing with climate change impacts
Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (that’s right, CAKE!)
Inspiration
Floating islands to replace submerged ones?
Beautiful Antarctica! (anyone know who did this?)
Mauihattan!
Mapping & marking sea level rise
Eve Mosher marks the potential waterline in NYC
