Climate Change

Resources

Science

Vital Signs: Ocean Warming, Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ocean-warming/

Adam B. Smith, “2022 U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in historical context,” National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/2022-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-historical-context

Water Science School, Floods and Recurrence Intervals, U.S. Geological Survey, https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/floods-and-recurrence-intervals

Robert R. Holmes, Jr. and Karen Dinicola, “100-Year Flood: It’s All About Chance,” U.S. Geological Survey, https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/106/

Archives

RepoData project, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ce11ef66b3b2471c83daf3fa99a27c29

Society of American Archivists information brief on archives and the environment, https://www2.archivists.org/statements/information-brief-archives-and-the-environment

Samantha Winn, “Our Monstrous Archives: Memory and the End of Time,” https://medium.com/on-archivy/our-monstrous-archives-memory-and-the-end-of-time-d439359ca5f2

Samantha Winn, “Dying Well in the Anthropocene: On the End of Archivists,” https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/107

Eira Tansey, A Green New Deal for Archives, https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/a-green-new-deal-for-archives/

Archivists Responding to Climate Change, http://projectarcc.org

Keeping History Above Water, https://historyabovewater.org/

Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. 2019. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82 (1): 165–206, https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/40741399

Current Events

“Vermont farmers are urged to document crop losses from flooding,” AP News, https://apnews.com/article/farms-flooding-vermont-03646bd9a088bbfa1bab623c08ff9fa1

“A tiny pest helped stoke this year’s devastating wildfires,” National Geographic, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bark-beetles-helped-stoke-2020-devastating-wildfires

Living Planet Report 2022, World Wildlife Federation: https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

International Union for the Conservation of Nature, “Extinction Crisis Continues Apace,” [archived November 17, 2009]: https://web.archive.org/web/20091119160804/https://www.iucn.org/?4143/Extinction-crisis-continues-apace

Lourdes Medrano, “This Tiny Desert Raptor Could Soon Regain Federal Protection,” updated July 23, 2023, Audubon.org https://www.audubon.org/news/this-tiny-desert-raptor-could-soon-regain-federal-protection

Remy Tumin, “After a Flood, Saving Appalachia’s History Piece by Piece,” August 7, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/kentucky-floods-appalshop-recovery.html

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