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🚨 Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the Fifth Edition of the Climate Change Indicators in the United States report. This comprehensive resource reveals new data underscoring the pervasive and growing impacts of climate change on our environment and communities. 🔍 Key updates in this edition include: + Marine Heat Waves: Highlighting multi-day high ocean temperatures. + Heat-Related Workplace Deaths: Addressing the human toll of rising temperatures on workers. 🌡️ The report features highlights from 57 indicators, organized into themes like: + Greenhouse Gases + Heat on the Rise + Extreme Events + Water Resources at Risk + Changing Seasons + Ocean Impacts + Rising Seas + Alaska’s Warming Climate 📊 Since the first edition in 2010, the EPA has consistently provided up-to-date online resources and publications. These indicators are developed with contributions from over 50 data partners, including U.S. and international agencies, academic institutions, and other organizations. 📈 The findings present compelling evidence of climate change's multifaceted effects on health, society, and ecosystems. As part of NJIT TAB's commitment to environmental stewardship and community resilience, we encourage everyone to review this critical report and stay informed. 🔗 Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eHR96mdV 🔗 Explore all 57 climate change indicators: https://lnkd.in/d_RE88X #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact #CommunityResilience #NJIT_TAB
Today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency released the Fifth Edition of Climate Change Indicators in the United States. The report highlights new data showing the continuing and far-reaching impacts of climate change on the people and environment of the United States. New to the report this year are an indicator on Marine Heat Waves (showing trends related to multi-day high ocean temperatures) and a feature on Heat-Related Workplace Deaths. The Fifth Edition presents highlights from a subset of EPA’s total of 57 indicators, which include historical data and observed trends related to either the causes or effects of climate change. The report explores the interconnected nature of observed changes in climate with chapters thematically organized around Greenhouse Gases, Heat on the Rise, Extreme Events, Water Resources at Risk, Changing Seasons, Ocean Impacts, Rising Seas, and Alaska’s Warming Climate. Since publishing the first edition in 2010, EPA has maintained an up-to-date online resource of climate change indicators and regularly released updated publications that present the latest data. EPA partners with more than 50 data contributors from various U.S. and international government agencies, academic institutions, and other organizations to compile these key indicators of climate change. EPA’s indicators show multiple lines of compelling evidence that climate change is increasingly affecting people’s health, society, and ecosystems in numerous ways. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eHR96mdV Explore all 57 climate change indicators: https://lnkd.in/d_RE88X
