Part of a series on Climate Change Impacts in California’s Central Valley By Pablo Ortiz, Bilingual Western States Climate Scientist II for the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. While different places in the United States experience different climate impacts (e.g., more extreme precipitation in eastern … [continued]
Scientists have known last year’s Castle Fire was probably the most destructive for California’s famously fire-resilient sequoias in at least 700 years, but a draft National Park Service report obtained by the Visalia Times-Delta puts a quantitative measurement on that fire’s climate-fueled toll. Between 7,500 and 10,000 monarch sequoias — … [continued]
Two coasts are tackling land conversions to solar by drawing on local knowledge.
The San Joaquin Valley has become America’s breadbasket over the past few decades. Products including pistachios, almonds, citrus, stone fruit, cotton, and grapes are grown here and distributed all over the United States and are exported around the world. Tulare County, about a three-hour drive north of Los Angeles, recently … [continued]
We don’t have to wait any longer for all-electric school bus transport in the US. The Kings Canyon Unified School District in California’s San Joaquin Valley is paving the way for districts across the nation to provide students with zero-emissions transport. The district has four of these electric school buses … [continued]
