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A South Bay Levee Breaks Ground, And Records
On a drizzly Thursday in April, dozens gathered beside a weedy San Jose shoreline to break ground on four miles of new levee and 2,900 acres of restored habitats, a future buffer from the rising Bay.
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How Rivers in the Sky Travel Across the Ocean
In California, our fate swings from drought to floods, depending largely on whether or not we get rainstorms called atmospheric rivers.
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Betting on Biochar
Rather than entering the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, the carbon in biochar remains as a solid, sequestered and lined up for a host of further uses.
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Less Sea Level Rise for Left Coast
Scientists are now more confident we should plan for up to a foot of sea-level rise on the Pacific Coast by 2050 than they were the last time they did the math.
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Burns for the Birds
Scientists examined islands of near-total deforestation after fires and found new landscapes born from the scorched earth. They also found birds hunting for seeds and insects in these new open areas…
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Not Just Any Wall Anywhere
Maladaptation, and failing to adapt in time, can be almost as dangerous as climate change.
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A Day On The Bayview’s Shifting Shore
I set out for Heron’s Head Park on an early March morning. To my surprise, I had never heard of, nor visited, this site on the southeastern bayshore in my 20-plus years growing up and living as a visual artist in San Francisco.
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Planting the Edgy Bits of Giant Marsh
Two days on the ground filming and talking with work crews planting new zones of the Giant Marsh Living Shoreline. “We need habitat to mature enough to function fast,” says Jeanne Hammond.
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Can Cooler Blocks Prevail in Los Angeles?
The “Cool Cities Challenge” launched this January in SoCal’s LA and Irvine, and the North Bay’s Petaluma. The program is designed to kick start climate action at the micro level.
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Portola Garden District Returns to Its Roots
Down a busy street overflowing with groceries, taquerias, Chinese medicine shops, and small businesses, an unassuming dead end is home to a thriving community garden, which also got greener during the pandemic.
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Pandemic Spawns Local Foods Revival
Farmers markets drew people outside during the pandemic, while CSAs and produce boxes kept them eating in but supporting local food.
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Climate Adaptation: The Basics
Resilient sweet potatoes and stilts on houses remind us how adaptable human beings can be. This graphic guide samples our earliest and most recent history of adaptation.
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In our latest feature, "A Day on the Bayview's Shifting Shore," next-gen contributor Alyson Wong discovers a hidden gem of a park in San Francisco, draws hope from community climate discussions there, and brings the reader along with photos and videos:
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/a-day-on-the-bayviews-shifting-shore/
#ClimateChange is making atmospheric rivers worse. @noka_oi breaks down where these storms come from, and how we track where they're going, in our quick read "How Rivers in the Sky Travel Across the Ocean":
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/how-rivers-in-the-sky-travel-across-the-ocean/
#climate #atmosphericriver #scicomm
In our latest feature, "A Day on the Bayview's Shifting Shore," next-gen contributor Alyson Wong discovers a hidden gem of a park in San Francisco, draws hope from community climate discussions there, and brings the reader along with photos and videos:
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/a-day-on-the-bayviews-shifting-shore/
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