Harnessing Rice Fields to Resurrect California’s Endangered Salmon
California’s salmon populations have been dangerously close to extinction for decades. A new partnership may help tip the scales toward recovery.
Dungeness crab fishing industry response to climate shock
How do fishing communities respond when disrupted by marine heatwave-associated harmful algal bloom closures?
January rain might not be enough to improve drought impacts in 2021
Despite some rain through the first days of 2021, water analysts have warned much more is needed to offset many months of drought in the...
California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help
Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its...
California’s 2020 Wildfire Emissions Akin to 24 Million Cars
California’s 2020 wildfire season thwarted the state’s fight against climate change, spewing enough carbon dioxide into the air to equal the emissions of millions of...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up Statewide Except For Transportation, Study Suggests
California is known around the world as a leader in the fight against climate change, but new data reveals that greenhouse gas emissions have increased...
The Good, Bad and Alarming of California’s Environmental Year
When hindsight is employed on the year 2020, the looking glass will be anything but rose-tinted. This annus horribilis unleashed a global pandemic that has...
To build a zero-carbon grid, we first need to model it accurately
Electricity is deeply entwined in our daily lives, but most people only think about it when the bills arrive — or when the power goes...