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Fast-Forward Fire

Author Justin Lai By Justin Lai
A new study, published last month in Nature, calculates that climate change has increased the risk of fast-spreading fires by 25% on average.

Wildlife Roll With Wildfire

Author Justin Lai By Justin Lai
Imagine a Mad Max-style wasteland, ravaged by wildfire, but populated by frolicking woodland fauna. That’s what Kendall Calhoun was surprised to see just months after one of California’s biggest megafires.

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Being Human in Big Weather

Author Jacoba Charles By Jacoba Charles
When it rained this May, it felt unexpected. Based on over 150 years of climate data for San Francisco, May typically gets several days with a light rain. But context...

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Fast-Forward Fire

A new study, published last month in Nature, calculates that climate change has increased the risk of fast-spreading fires by 25% on average.

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Wildlife Roll With Wildfire

Imagine a Mad Max-style wasteland, ravaged by wildfire, but populated by frolicking woodland fauna. That’s what Kendall Calhoun was surprised to see just months after one of California’s biggest megafires.

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Who’s on First at the SF Seawall?

Ten months after the Port of San Francisco lowered 288 experimental tiles into the water, these bio-friendly seawall surfaces are already crawling with crabs and covered in kelp. This August, researchers are finally getting a good look at all the tile types in their experiment, which range from large to small, and from bumpy to smooth, and which were hung from the waterfront at three different locations and tidal elevations in October 2022.

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Crunching the Adaptation Numbers – Not Peanuts

Regional agencies made splashy headlines when they released a joint study on the likely cost of protecting Bay Area shores from rising seas: $110 billion. But the top-line number didn’t offer much insight into the complexities. A new inventory and map from the same agencies is much more revealing.

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Being Human in Big Weather

When it rained this May, it felt unexpected. Based on over 150 years of climate data for San Francisco, May typically gets several days with a light rain. But context is key, and we are coming out of three years of drought—a fact which will generally color memories in a drier hue. “If I’ve learned anything it is that people’s perceptions are usually wrong,” says Jan Null….

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Return of a Lost Lake

On the heels of the worst drought in 1,200 years, Tulare Lake, at the southern end of California’s San Joaquin Valley, filled and filled again in the heavy rains and runoff, inundating over 100,000 acres. As the Sierra snowpack melts over the next few months, the lake could spread, prompting water managers and locals to reconsider the future of this lake, long thought “dead.”

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September 2023. The August Blue Moon, otherwise known as the Sturgeon Moon, taken from a dock on Corte Madera Creek in Larkspur, California by Lisa Strong. Due to fires in Northern California, smokey air gave the moon a brooding orange sheen, inspiring the photographer to suggest it be called the Fire Moon moving forward.

September 2023

The August Blue Moon, otherwise known as the Sturgeon Moon, taken from a dock on Corte Madera Creek in Larkspur, California by Lisa Strong. Due to fires in Northern California, smokey air gave the moon a brooding orange sheen, inspiring the photographer to suggest it be called the Fire Moon moving forward.