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The full recording from the CCASS Career Pathways in Adaptation event is now available. A panel of four climate adaptation experts discuss their experiences and careers as well as their insights about the future.

The recent deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s destructive storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more so far this year.

CCASS Director Kathy Jacobs was interviewed by CNN International's Michael Holmes about the devastating fire in Hawaii and how we can build more resilient systems in the future.

Check out the Arizona Tri-University Recharge and Water Reliability Project webpage for updates related to this project.

The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, in collaboration with the Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI), has just published a report titled Understanding the Effectiveness of Coastal Nature-based Solutions: Practitioner-based Learning. Nature-based Solutions are part of a suite of adaptation options that can provide interlinked benefits in hazard risk reduction, natural habitat, and social and equity needs.

Learn more about the collaborative effort behind the Flood Justice Symposium, which took place on April 20, 2023 and explored how we can better study, prepare for, and respond to floods in a way that centers equity.

CCASS Director, Kathy Jacobs, explains the issues plaguing the current management system of the Colorado River Basin in this Newsweek opinion piece.

On November 18, 2022, the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions and the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health jointly sponsored a workshop titled COVID, Climate Change, and Preparedness: Lessons Learned to engage academic and public health and healthcare professionals in exploring opportunities to advance understanding of the lessons learned in the COVID-19 pandemic that are applicable to climate preparedness.

On December 6, 2022, the Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments and Societies hosted "Confluence: The Colorado River at the Compact’s Centennial." This event featured an array of Colorado River experts speaking about critical topics along 'America's Nile' as well as a celebration of the publication of the Colorado River Compact centennial volume, Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century. 

Kathy Jacobs, CCASS Director and Professor in Environmental Science, moderates this National Academies webinar on the role of the social and behavioral sciences in understanding and addressing climate change.