BONUS: Wade Crowfoot on Building Wildfire Resilience

June 10, 2024

More than 7% of California has burned in the last five years. Clearly, past methods of wildfire prevention haven’t worked. Now, California is...

Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire

June 7, 2024

Summer is just around the corner, and in addition to travel and vacation, that also means peak wildfire season. Recently we’ve seen some of the...

Two Hemispheres, One Story: Reporting on Rising Seas

October 21, 2022

An undeniable reality of the climate crisis is that poorer countries in the Global South are experiencing climate-induced disasters first and...

Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency

July 29, 2022

In 2006, PG&E was perceived to be one of the most progressive utilities in the country. They supported California’s landmark climate law AB 32,...

REWIND: Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene

July 8, 2022

We’re on track for yet another year of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy...

Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home

December 23, 2021

When it comes to rising seas and other climate threats, how do we figure out when to stay and when to go?  The concept of managed retreat –...

Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene

October 8, 2021

We’ve experienced yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy...

Living with Climate Disruption

April 22, 2021

We’ve been living with the impacts of a changing climate for years, but those impacts don’t all hit the same way. 
A wildfire amplified by...

Living With Fire

September 11, 2020

“Wildfires have historically been a natural part of California's ecology,” says Wade Crowfoot, California’s Secretary of Natural Resources. ...

How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility

April 19, 2019

PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California...