San Francisco records back-to-back fully dry Octobers for the second time in 170 years.
Climate Change
Spring Issue 2020
Can California Reverse Biodiversity Decline?
At a time when development is paving over habitat and climate change is transforming ecosystems at an unprecedented pace, California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot says the state has a moral imperative to focus on biodiversity.
Spring Issue 2020
In ‘These Lines Are Living,’ Artists Engage With the Changing Shoreline
Can site-specific dance and other forms of art help us more deeply grasp the reality of our changing shorelines?
Weather
It’s a Dry Heat
What happens in an always warm world when it doesn’t rain for an unusual amount of time?
Climate Change
As the Sea Rises and Climate Changes, a Bay Area City Approves 469 Single Family Homes On a Bayshore Flood Zone
Update Nov. 15, 2019: This story has been revised to reflect the city’s vote on Thursday, Nov. 14 to approve the project. Planners, climate scientists, and environmentalists generally agree that two of the most critical measures California should take to … Read more
The Science Explainer
How to Start Adapting to California’s “Precipitation Whiplash”
Much of California enjoys a mild Mediterranean climate where the weather typically swings like a pendulum from warm, dry summers to cool, wet winters. Year-to-year, this pendulum can swing with great variation. If it doesn’t swing toward rain and snow … Read more
Climate Change
These Trees Survived California’s Drought and That’s Giving Scientists Hope for Climate Change
The drought killed a lot of trees. But not all of them.
Climate Change
‘There’s No Ambiguity. It Will Be Gone.’ How Animals Will Feel the Warming Climate
An examination of Northern California illustrates the challenges of trying to predict the future for evolving species.
Ask the Naturalist
As Temperatures Change, What Organisms Move North to California?
What are some the biological consequences of climate change in Northern California?
Fall Issue 2019
Want to Prevent California’s Katrina? Grow a Marsh
These islands in the Delta aren’t really islands at all anymore.
