California
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A Climate Expert Explains Why Atmospheric Rivers Are Causing Historic Rainfall in California
Climate professor Mingfang Ting discusses how atmospheric rivers are connected to climate change and what communities can do about them.
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Flooding in California: What Went Wrong, and What Comes Next
Climate School experts help to explain this devastating weather and what it means in the broader conversation of climate change and disaster response.
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The Demise of the Internal Combustion Engine
The electric vehicle is one element of a system that will some day be less destructive to the environment than today’s system. California will get there first and will need to teach the world how to get the job done.
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A Slow-Motion Section of the San Andreas Fault May Not Be So Harmless After All
The central section of the great fault spanning California, thought to be creeping along harmlessly at the moment, has experienced big quakes in the past, says a new study.
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Supercomputers Simulate 800,000 Years of California Earthquakes to Pinpoint Risks
Scientists are working to improve their calculations of earthquake danger by combining maps of known faults with the use of supercomputers to simulate potential shaking deep into the future in California.
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What’s Ailing California’s Electric System?
Four “preexisting conditions” need to be addressed in order to avoid power outages in the future.
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Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires
A new study combs through the factors that can promote wildfires in California, and concludes that in many cases, warming climate is the decisive driver.
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Yes, Climate Change is Making Wildfires Worse
Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has found that rising temperatures influence wildfires in the American West.
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Almond Orchards in California: Healthy or Hazardous?
Why California almonds get such a bad rap.
