News

We review local, regional and national news that touches on our work here at BARC. Whether it be renewable energy, rising sea levels, racial segregation or the changing landscape of new laws and new technologies that will shape our communities.

February 1, 2024 — Conservation meets climate resilience in Monterey Bay. A recently published study of monitoring of the Monterey Bay Elkhorn Slough estuary shows that despite sea level rise and other stresses, a restored sea otter population is slowing erosion of salt marsh edges. Predator-exclusion experiments...
February 1, 2024 — Peter Gleick, hydroclimatologist, author, and senior fellow at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, opines that recent mega-storms show the immediate need to dramatically scale-up efforts to prepare California for both flooding and drought. We must adapt California’s water infrastructure to a current...
January 24, 2024 — Cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is critical to mitigating the effects of global climate change. The fundamental challenge for the world’s nations is setting and achieving GHG emission reduction targets. This not only requires governmental policy and economic paradigm shifts, but also...
January 24, 2024 — According to NOAA, the United States recorded 28 weather and climate disasters that topped a billion dollars in damages in 2023, including California flooding in from January through March. The total cost of these events exceeds $92 billion (inflation adjusted) which is the ninth highest on record...
January 3, 2024 — Cities around the world such as Medelin (Columbia), Singapore, and Dusseldorf (Germany) are integrating nature into their infrastructure and built environments to reduce urban heat island effects, increase biodiversity, and improve air quality. In a time of global warming, these nature-based...

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