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Valley Fever: A poetic interpretation
Valley Fever is a nasty, sometimes incurable and even deadly fungal infection that afflicts hundreds of thousands of people , as I learned in an article in this week’s New Yorker, by Dana Goodyear....
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Flipping out intelligently over California’s drought
Everyone is flippin’ out about California’s drought, and with good reason. Skim the excellent California Weather Blog‘s last few months of posts, and it’s clear that the state* is going through a...
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Nature going nuts in California
Mountain lions are roaming the streets of San Francisco. Great white sharks are massing just a few feet off the shore in Monterey. California is in the midst of the worst drought in centuries, but it...
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California is literally sinking
This can’t be good: NASA tells us that the Central Valley is dropping 2 inches a month because of groundwater pumping. It’s a process that has been going on for a century or more, but with the extreme...
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It really doesn’t matter how much it rains in California this year
Just a quick reminder that, no matter how much El Niño drenches us this year (or doesn’t—we’re actually behind the curve on rainfall), California is still kind of up dirt creek in the long run. I think...
View ArticleDry lands: Wrapping our heads around California’s ecological future
A mere three years ago, every headline about California from the Times to Buzzfeed was screaming about the droughtpocalypse. Then we had a semi-normal precipitation year, in 2015-16. We learned to use...
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