Environment Now and its partners track news and events that can impact our shared work to protect and restore California’s environment, particularly its waters and forests.
- Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse? (10/23/20)
- California’s Landmark Groundwater Law Falls Short, Advocates Say (10/22/20)
- What Has the Trump Administration Meant for Water? (10/22/20)
- FEMA ends flood control policy that favored seawalls and levees over green protections, such as wetlands and open space. (10/15/20)
- Wildfire safety starts with communities, not cutting forests. (10/8/20)
- Stanford researchers identify “landfalling droughts” that originate over ocean before traveling onto land, and which can cause larger, drier conditions than other droughts. (9/24/20)
- LA Times Editorial, “A better way to help Californians survive wildfires: Focus on homes, not trees.” (9/22/20)
- The U.N. finds the world has “missed a critical deadline to safeguard biodiversity,” in part due to uncurbed habitat destruction and pollution from agriculture. (9/15/20)
- Visualizing the Connection Between Wildfires and Climate Change in Five Sets of Photos and Charts. (9/8/20)