Category: Climate change
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Flood risks: Preparing for urban floods with an eye toward equity
Flood waters from the San Francisquito Creek reached apartment complexes in East Palo Alto, California, during a storm event on Dec. 31, 2022. | Courtesy of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority Plans for flood mitigation along urban rivers often benefit some neighborhoods more than others. Researchers and collaborators in a densely populated California floodplain developed…
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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers $520 Million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Revitalize Aging Water Infrastructure and Strengthen Drought Resilience
Funding will be provided to 57 projects across six regions to increase drought resilience and improve water delivery systems, advance Biden-Harris administrations’ National Climate Resilience Framework Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis today announced more than $520 million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to revitalize aging water delivery systems across the West. The funding will…
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As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’
By Franco Montalto, Drexel University “When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it’s becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a changing climate. Across the continental U.S., intense single-day precipitation events are growing more frequent, fueled by warming air that can hold increasing levels of moisture.…
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California’s Plans for Slowing Climate Change Through Nature-Based Solutions
As part of SF Climate Week, KQED’s Danielle Venton sat down with the California Secretary of Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot, for Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. They discussed wildfires, indigenous leadership, natural land and the State’s plans for slowing climate change. “If I had one point to make,” said Crowfoot, “it’s the importance of…
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Climate Change’s ‘Physical Risks’ Are Catching Up With Banks
A container ship navigates through the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal on Nov. 3. Drought has led to restrictions on ships transiting the waterway. Photographer: Bloomberg The financial industry is waking up to the potential losses from extreme events and long-term changes in weather patterns. As the world veers further off course from its goal of limiting…
