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The Bay Area Regional Collaborative, or BARC, works to collaborate and problem-solve for 21st century challenges that impact the Bay Area, including climate change and social and economic injustice.

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We Don’t See What Climate Change Is Doing to Us

April 17, 2024 — This opinion piece highlights the importance of recognizing and addressing the hidden costs of global warming and other increasing climate hazards. This includes understanding the health and socio-economic impacts of excess heat, rather than extreme heat, and how heat-related data is underreported...

Coastal wetlands can’t keep pace with sea-level rise, and infrastructure is leaving them nowhere to go

April 11, 2024 — With sea level rising at a rate of 10 millimeters per year due to climate change, coastal wetland ecosystems in the United States are in jeopardy. As the rate of sea level rise increases, many coastal wetland complexes cannot migrate inland because they are bound on that side by the human-built...

Solar Geoengineering Experiments Making Headlines--what are the benefits and risks?

April 5, 2024 — Three news articles published in the same week explore the controversial science of geoengineering to mitigate global warming. These pieces look at the concept of altering the earth’s skies to better reflect solar heat before it is trapped in the atmosphere. The articles highlight a number of...

35 miles east of Long Island, the U.S. has its first large offshore wind farm

March 19, 2024 — America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, South Fork Wind, is officially open 35 miles off the coast of Montauk Point, New York. It can generate 132 megawatts of offshore wind energy to power more than 70,000 homes. Offshore wind remains a key strategy in transitioning to a carbon-free...

The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge

March 19, 2024 — Since 2013, China has embarked on a national policy to turn its growing metropolises into sponge cities, which capture stormwater instead of disposing of it all. As engineered designs slow the flow of that water and allow it to soak into the Earth instead of running away—using rain gardens...
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Our maps, data and reports are a core BARC necessity. These evidence-based tools and resources help support our actionable planning efforts across the region.

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