Australia’s summers have lengthened by as much as a month or more in the past half century, exposing people to greater fire and heat extremes and placing ecosystems and farm crops at risk. Researchers from The Australia Institute analysed data from 70 of the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather stations across southern and sub-tropical Australia, where […]
Some communities in California just experienced the driest February ever, and there’s around an 80 percent chance the state will enter a full-blown drought this year. If that happens, it could be the third-driest year in over a century, according to modeling by the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. But even though around […]
The Interior Department on Friday awarded the nation’s largest farm water district a permanent entitlement to annual irrigation deliveries that amount to roughly twice as much water as the nearly 4 million residents of Los Angeles use in a year. Gaining a permanent contract for so much cheap Central Valley Project water represents a major milestone […]
At its Feb. 26, 2020 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $33.2 million in grants to help restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. Some of the 41 approved projects will benefit fish and wildlife — including some endangered species — while others will provide public access to important natural […]
As signs of a new drought loom over California farm country and a potential return of last spring’s catastrophic floods haunts the Midwestern corn belt, Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is out with a new plan to ready US agriculture for the insults of climate change. Called the Agriculture Resilience Act, the bill would enlist growers to help slow global warming by using their […]
The Pentagon may be forced to follow new state environmental pollution standards for a family of manmade “forever chemicals” that may have been spilled at hundreds of military sites in the U.S., Defense Secretary Mark Esper told lawmakers. Esper was pressed Wednesday at a House Armed Services Committee hearing over the military’s use of widely used firefighting […]
Summers Are Starting Earlier, Finishing Later and Winter is in Retreat
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Sydney Morning Heraldby Peter HannamAustralia’s summers have lengthened by as much as a month or more in the past half century, exposing people to greater fire and heat extremes and placing ecosystems and farm crops at risk. Researchers from The Australia Institute analysed data from 70 of the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather stations across southern and sub-tropical Australia, where […]
Drought In California Seems Inevitable. But Experts Say Don’t Panic
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Capital Public Radioby David Ezra RomeroSome communities in California just experienced the driest February ever, and there’s around an 80 percent chance the state will enter a full-blown drought this year. If that happens, it could be the third-driest year in over a century, according to modeling by the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. But even though around […]
Westlands Water District Gets Permanent U.S. Contract for Massive Irrigation Deliveries
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Bettina BoxallThe Interior Department on Friday awarded the nation’s largest farm water district a permanent entitlement to annual irrigation deliveries that amount to roughly twice as much water as the nearly 4 million residents of Los Angeles use in a year. Gaining a permanent contract for so much cheap Central Valley Project water represents a major milestone […]
Wildlife Conservation Board Funds Environmental Improvement and Acquisition Projects
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /California Department of Fish and WildlifeAt its Feb. 26, 2020 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $33.2 million in grants to help restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. Some of the 41 approved projects will benefit fish and wildlife — including some endangered species — while others will provide public access to important natural […]
What Would It Take to Get More Farmers Fighting Climate Change?
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Mother Jonesby Tom PhilpottAs signs of a new drought loom over California farm country and a potential return of last spring’s catastrophic floods haunts the Midwestern corn belt, Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is out with a new plan to ready US agriculture for the insults of climate change. Called the Agriculture Resilience Act, the bill would enlist growers to help slow global warming by using their […]
Military May be Bound by State Laws on ‘Forever Chemicals’
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Bloomberg Environmentby Travis J. TrittenThe Pentagon may be forced to follow new state environmental pollution standards for a family of manmade “forever chemicals” that may have been spilled at hundreds of military sites in the U.S., Defense Secretary Mark Esper told lawmakers. Esper was pressed Wednesday at a House Armed Services Committee hearing over the military’s use of widely used firefighting […]