California landscape of climate finance
To support California in meeting its climate goals and using its budget most effectively, CPI created this first-of-its-kind landscape of climate finance in California, building on the flagship Global
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Citizens group sues California agency over nuclear waste burial
A civilian watchdog group sued a California coastal agency on Tuesday, seeking to overturn its decision to allow 1,800 tons (1,632 tonnes) of radioactive waste from a closed nuclear power plant to be buried
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El Niño could kill hundreds of homeless Californians who refuse to leave flood zones
Forecasters say this year’s El Niño promises to be one of the strongest ever, with the potential to unleash a devastating wave of flash floods and mudslides upon drought-stricken California in coming months.
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Coastal infrastructure: a typology for the next century of adaptation to sea-level rise
<p>Categorizing the choices in coastal infrastructure that are available to policy makers will allow for comparisons of their potential impacts on ecosystems and of their value in preparation for long-term
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Climate Change Threatens an Iconic Desert Tree
It’s not just the polar bear. Animals and plants in Earth’s other extreme environment—the desert—are endangered by rising temperatures. At Joshua Tree National Park in California’s Mojave Desert, these
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California officials outline preparations for El Nino flooding
As California braces for torrential downpours this winter from El Nino, authorities have stockpiled extra sandbags across the state while putting hundreds of personnel through flood-control training, officials
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Ancient Wildfires: Researchers Examine Evolution Of Forest Fires
Even though plants first emerged on Earth 400 million years ago, it was not until approximately 80 million years later that wildfires began ripping through forests and grasslands like they do today in
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California to help India in reducing air pollution
Known for its pioneering environmental effort, California has agreed to help India reduce air pollution and combat climate change, state governor Jerry Brown said after his meeting with Prime Minister
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Wildfires: How to Save The Forests
Forest fires have consumed nearly 9 million acres in the United States so far in 2015. Amid predictions that climate change will only bring drier conditions and trees left brittle by invasive insects,
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As the wind blows: the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on mortality
There is strong evidence that short-run fluctuations in air pollution negatively impact infant health and contemporaneous adult health, but there is less evidence on the causal link between long-term exposure
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California drought: Sierra Nevada snowpack falls to 500-year low
Last winter’s snow accumulation in the mountains that provide state’s most important natural water system was just 5% of what is normal, study finds The Sierra Nevada snowpack that is a critical water