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RENO — The impacts of climate change have been acute in California and Nevada, with most of the last two decades spent in extended drought conditions and 2021 wildfires producing Reno’s worst recorded air quality in...

DRI is partnering with Scripps Institution of Oceanography to build climate resiliency through the California Nevada Adaptation Program (CNAP)...

A hurricane is expected to deliver a glancing blow to the San Diego region. That could mean significant rain and wind.

The already grueling 2,600-mile hike now includes the added challenges of global warming, which can mean a lack of shade and exposure to smoke and fire.

He also made a prescient forecast about how climate change would affect California's water supply

By 2070, the glaciers on the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington State, will have largely disappeared, said Andrew G. Fountain, professor of geology and geography at Portland State University, who led a team of researchers on the subject. Although some glaciers will probably remain — albeit as tiny shells of their former selves. 

Andrew G. Fountain, professor of geology and geography at Portland State University—who headed a research group on the subject, feels that the glaciers present on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State will have disappeared substantially by 2070.

Californians are seeing a dark side to balmy February temperatures.

A hot spring and summer will likely be followed up by above-average temperatures this fall in Southern California. Researchers point to the warming climate.

Scripps Oceanography gets share of California Energy Commission contract to simulate climate change This figure shows projected changes in California’s average hottest day of the year by the end of this century (2070-2100) produced by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. (Courtesy) Print The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 million contract to three University of California campuses, including UC San Diego, that will work in tandem to bett...