February 9, 2024 — San Francisco has been a pioneer of electric public transport systems for more than a century. As more countries around the world look to electrification of public transit to decarbonize, many are hitting the same barriers: large upfront costs and a lack of strong local or national policy. The San...
February 9, 2024 — The recent atmospheric river storm events are a reminder that many urban stormwater systems are outdated for the expected future of more intense storms. Surface level climate adaptation measures like levees and sea walls are designed to withstand 50- or 100-year floods that have a small chance of...
February 9, 2024 — Atmospheric rivers occur all over the world, forming narrow channels of intense moisture transport in the sky. They start over warm water, typically tropical oceans, and are guided toward the coast by low-level jet streams ahead of cold fronts of extratropical cyclones. Along California, the Pacific...
February 1, 2024 — Conservation meets climate resilience in Monterey Bay. A recently published study of monitoring of the Monterey Bay Elkhorn Slough estuary shows that despite sea level rise and other stresses, a restored sea otter population is slowing erosion of salt marsh edges. Predator-exclusion experiments...
February 1, 2024 — Peter Gleick, hydroclimatologist, author, and senior fellow at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, opines that recent mega-storms show the immediate need to dramatically scale-up efforts to prepare California for both flooding and drought. We must adapt California’s water infrastructure to a current...