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Santa Cruz’s water supply: Is growth the problem?
Santa Cruz’s population is using about the same amount of water in 2021 as in 1981, despite growing by about 30,000 people. New technologies, smarter landscaping and conservation have been the key to success. The only real solution to today’s water supply shortages is more supply.
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Hikers shut out as climate change, fires kept California forests off-limits
A temporary closure of California’s national forests canceled long-planned trips and local hikes. Will it become the new normal?
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As California’s drought deepens, water use drops only 1.8%
Officials warn that next year’s cuts in water supply could go even deeper as severe drought grips nearly 90% of California. Residents of the North Coast and Bay Area conserved more than Southern Californians did.
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Biden tries to reassure allies and urges action on climate change, pandemic at U.N.
Biden seeks to reassure allies that the U.S. will not turn its back on global commitments in his first speech at the U.N.
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Fire creeps closer to ancient sequoias, reaching Trail of 100 Giants
Flames from the Windy fire are chewing the trunks of trees within Long Meadow Grove, home to some 1,500-year-old sequoias along the Trail of 100 Giants.
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Untold story of the original effort to preserve Big Basin shared in new book
On the heels of the 1-year anniversary of the CZU Lightning Complex Fires, “Big Basin Redwood Forest, California’s Oldest State Park,” shares the true story of a conservation victory for the ages while raising funds to support the fire recovery effort at Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
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Giant Forest trees prepped for flames in Sequoia National Park as KNP Complex fire closes in
Flames from the KNP Complex fire were within reach Thursday of the sequoias in the Giant Forest, fire crews warned. “A lot of special effort is going into protecting this grove,” a parks spokesperson said as firefighters wrapped trees and structures in a fire-resistant aluminum material.
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With a warming climate, coastal fog around the world is declining
In California, dissipating “June gloom” could bring a dismal future for some of the state’s iconic redwoods and other plants, animals and humans that depend on the water coastal fog brings.
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Lightning, fire, flash floods: California gripped by extreme weather
Severe lightning and thunderstorms spurred shelter-in-place warnings, rockfalls and mudslides, and the threat of new ignitions to already massive wildfires.