Category: Solutions
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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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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% tree coverage a little more than a third of the city’s goal of 35%. Kristin Lam/CapRadio Sacramento is asking the public to give feedback on a draft plan to increase how much of the city is…
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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 and Wildlife, and others during the presentation of an award to Trout Unlimited April 26. The award recognized TU’s restoration of habitat crucial to endangered Central California Coast coho salmon. Photo by Katja Bresch. U.S.…
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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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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. Controlled burns are part of the service’s forest management practices. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) California has unveiled an ambitious plan to help combat the worsening climate crisis with one of its invaluable assets: its…
