July 15, 2022

Education – United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Education enables upward socioeconomic mobility and is a key to escaping poverty. Over the past decade, major progress was made towards increasing access to education and school enrollment rates at all levels, particularly for girls. Nevertheless, about 260 million children were still out of school in 2018 — nearly one fifth of the global population …

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NOAA Planet Stewards Education Project: NOAA’s National Ocean Service

The NOAA Ocean Service Education site includes ocean and coastal curricula for educators; thematic modules about corals, ocean currents and tides, estuaries, global positioning, pollution, nautical charts, and seafloor mapping for students; and hands-on activities and materials for explorers of all ages!NOAA Education resource collections are organized by themes aligned with common teaching topics including …

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NOAA’s National Ocean Service

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USGS Flood Information | U.S. Geological Survey

USGS Flood Current Conditions and NotificationsThe USGS offers multiple products that allow our stakeholders and the public to be notified of high-flow conditions and USGS flood response activities:WaterWatch: Access current flood and high-flow conditions (image below), along with other streamflow informationRegional and Local Flood Alerts: View current and historical alerts of flooding and response activities; subscribe to …

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The 100-Year Flood | U.S. Geological Survey

A 100-year flood happened last year so it won’t happen for another 99 years, right? Not exactly. Misinterpretation of terminology often leads to confusion about flood recurrence intervals. Read on to learn more.•  Water Science School HOME  •  Surface Water topics  •Floods: Recurrence intervals and 100-year floods (USGS)Possibly you can remember when a really big rain, be …

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