Tag: California
California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
Max Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
We recently witnessed the wind-driven Tubbs fire blast its way through densely urbanized neighborhoods in Northern California, causing dozens...
State budgets hang in the balance as future of ACA uncertain
Capri Cafaro, American University
Many state budget directors are starting to plan for the next fiscal year – even as debate over repealing and replacing...
Are there too many music festivals?
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Coachella unofficially kicks off the 2017 U.S. festival season on April 15, and while this year’s event...
Rules change, new voters mean an unpredictable primary day in California
Vanessa Tyson, Scripps College
Three months after Super Tuesday, the presidential primary is finally coming to California.
That the Democratic Party still has two candidates in...
How John Muir’s incessant study saved Yosemite
Michael Wurtz, University of the Pacific
Run a Google search on naturalist and preservationist John Muir and you will quickly turn up one of his...
How much has global warming worsened California’s drought? Now…
How much has global warming worsened California's drought? Now we have a number
Park Williams, Columbia University
With each passing year, human-caused global warming bullies California...
How climate change is making California’s epic drought worse
Catherine Gautier, University of California, Santa Barbara
This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series...
How to save California’s precious groundwater, the ‘dark matter’ of our...
Graham Fogg, University of California, Davis
As California suffers its fourth year of drought, much of the attention is focused on the state’s groundwater –...
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
