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Resilience is like? Caption Contest

Cartoons can tell so many stories about being kneedeep in climate resilience work. What’s your idea for a cartoon?

Teaming Up to Tackle East Bay Wet Spots

Partners push for three projects and a big grant to protect a critical swath of the East Bay shoreline from sea-level and groundwater rise.

The Itchy Cost of Hotter Summers

Mosquito-borne disease is on the rise thanks to climate change. Will the Bay Area get new mosquito species? Climate change might push them to cooler climates.

Rail Line Reinvents Itself After Pandemic Slump  

This North Bay rail system is winning back ridership against the odds, catering to bikers, hikers, shoppers and commuters.

Hard Park Going Soft in Alameda 

The City of Alameda is planning to de-pave an area of the former Alameda Naval Air station the size of nine football fields and transform it into an ecological nature park.

Wine Country County Counts for Half of California’s Repeat Home Flooding

We tested a free flood mapping tool. It revealed that Sonoma County homes get flooded more often than most.

Residentes del Canal Vadean en la Ciencia Cuidadana

Residentes del canal vadean en la ciencia cuidadana.

Canal Residents Wade into Citizen Science

Organizers of the bilingual King Tide Day/Día de las Mareas Reales along the San Rafael Canal on February 10 hoped witnessing the highest tides of the year could help make the area’s vulnerability to sea level rise more real to residents.

More Training Academies Percolating

Shoreline residents from San Francisco and Contra Costa counties could soon be better equipped to influence local planning decisions.

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A Fix for Old Drains, Old Trees with New Rainfall

To get storm resilient, a stretch of El Camino Real in San Mateo may lose hundreds of historic eucalyptus trees.

San Mateo Antes Up for Flood-Free Future

When San Mateo Creek topped its banks during last winter’s relentless winter storms, Danielle Cwirko-Godycki’s home became one of thousands in the city to flood.

A Landscape Made to Flood in Sonoma

Tall oaks with submerged trunks are sure signs that the land is “flooded.” While for some areas that might be a negative, for Laguna de Santa Rosa it’s not only positive but protective.

Tweaking Climate Talk So It Hits Home 

Climate change messaging often falls short, dwelling on too much science, favoring the dark side. Researcher Richelle Tanner is exploring what could help.

Wheat Fields or Walkable City for Solano Open Space?

A proposal for a 17,500-acre new sustainable city in Solano County’s rolling hills has locals worrying and dreaming. County voters will likely embrace or reject the resulting “East Solano Homes, Jobs, and Clean Energy Initiative” in November 2024.

Isolated Town Forges Resilience on Mendocino Coast

After experiencing wildfire, flooding, power outages, and even a snowstorm in the last three years, Point Arena residents are taking climate preparedness into their own hands.

Beach Loss Looms for the California Coast

Even though Dan Hoover’s been surveying the same stretch of San Francisco’s Pacific coast for 15 years on his ATV, it never looks the same. In summer it’s wider and in winter narrower. With El Niño the beach will erode more than ever.

Working and Playing in the Coastal Zone

KneeDeep profiles Arye Janoff and Bekah Lane. Janoff surfs and manages coastal dredging and restoration projects for the Army Corps; Lane monitors whales for the Marine Mammal Center. Climate change is their newest challenge.

Marsh Mice Come in Two Flavors

Scientists discover why the Bay Area’s two populations of endangered salt marsh harvest mice differ, and it’s partly due to sea level change.

Corps Experiments with Sediment Feed from Shallows

Can tides and waves move sediment placed in the shallows onto wetlands? The Army Corps is experimenting with how to do it.