Solutions

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.…

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Sacramento has a new plan to grow the city’s tree canopy and wants your feedback

Trees line 68th Avenue in the Meadowview neighborhood of Sacramento on Thursday, April 26, 2024. The area has around 12%…

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Trout Unlimited Wins Award for California Partnership Uniting Landowners to Save Coho Salmon

Chris Wood, President and CEO of Trout Unlimited, speaks to staff from Trout Unlimited, NOAA Fisheries, California Department of Fish…

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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,…

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Nature-based solutions: California wants to harness more than half its land to combat climate change by 2045.

U.S. Forest Service firefighters in the Angeles National Forest burn piles of forest debris below Mt. Baldy in November 2023.…

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Karrigan’ Börk’s Award-Winning Water Rights Solution

The Colorado River supplies water to seven U.S. states for more than 35 million people and irrigates more than 5…

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Cocopah Tribe: habitat restoration along the Colorado River to address climate change

Map: Tribe will restore areas along the Colorado River to address climate change. The Cocopah Tribe will work on riparian…

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Groups call out conservation as equitable, affordable and the most reliable option for meeting the state’s demand for water in light of the West’s unpredictable water future

PRESS RELEASE: More than 100 non-profit organizations and other water advocates have signed on to a statement that urges California leaders to…

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Pacific Fishery Management Council considering closures to protect deep-sea habitats

MBARI’s ROV, Ventana being deployed at the proposed restoration and research site, Sur Ridge. (Brian Phan – Herald Correspondent) Deep-sea…

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Groundwater Crisis: The Need for New Data to Inform Public Policy

It is far from preposterous to suggest that the fate of the human race is inextricably linked to the fate…

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