California

In the Deluged Mountains of Santa Cruz, Residents Cope With Compounding Disasters

In 2020, a wildfire burned through parts of the Santa Cruz mountains. Now, the Central California coast has been inundated by a string of atmospheric rivers. “It’s hard to live here right now,” says one resident.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Its Water Rights in Call For Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

By Bob Berwyn

Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down

By Liza Gross

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

This Winter’s Rain and Snow Won’t be Enough to Pull the West Out of Drought

By Alex Hager, KUNC

California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out

By Liza Gross

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

California Regulators Approve Reduced Solar Compensation for Homeowners

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite

By Liza Gross

New Toolkit of Health Guidance Helps Patients and Care Providers on the Front Lines of Climate Change Prepare for Wildfires

By Victoria St. Martin

Climate Change Makes Things Harder for Unhoused Veterans

By Sonner Kehrt, The War Horse

California Climate Measure Fails After ‘Green’ Governor Opposed It in a Campaign Supporters Called ‘Misleading’

By Liza Gross

How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California’s Treasured Mono Lake

By Bob Berwyn

A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned?

By James Bruggers

Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

By Liza Gross