NOAA announced the release of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) to help communities prepare for and respond to climate change. NOAA provided physical science data as well as the agency’s work on regionally-based climate resiliency, community engagement and environmental justice to NCA5. The assessment emphasized the importance of Indigenous knowledge to understand climate change impacts and environmental justice to understand unequal impacts of climate change. Read the NCA5.
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