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Amid repeated storms and sea level rise, new research shines light on another flood risk that has remained hidden for years: groundwater rise.

Communities that consider themselves “safe” from sea level rise might need to think otherwise, said Kris May, a lead author of the report and founder of Pathways Climate Institute, a research-based consulting firm in San Francisco that helps cities adapt to climate change.

A new mission from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will study water on Earth from space, ushering in a new era in the study of climate change.

California Reeling: When Mudslides Follow Wildfires. It’s been nearly five years since a torrent of mud, boulders and debris slammed into Montecito, California, a Santa Barbara County town of 8,600 nestled between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the...

Steven Guilbeault wrote that his office is studying whether to integrate the green space around the airport into a new urban national park.

As historic floods beset several states, a new study finds that warming could make a California “megaflood” more dangerous, and likely, than previously thought.

A new study pinpoints erosion hot spots along the entire California coast — and found that cliffs in Northern California are disappearing the fastest.

A new study pinpoints erosion hot spots along the entire California coast — and found that cliffs in Northern California are disappearing the fastest.

Prolonged drought, severe sea-level rise, dramatic flooding, raging wildfires. Climate change is having tangible impacts in regions across the country. Here’s what the models are telling us.

Eighteen thousand years ago, give or take, the continental shelf 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco was exposed as a wide, flat coastal plain with an extensive system of dunes and river valleys connecting the Farallon Islands to the continental United States, which didn’t go by that name. Farther north, salt waters from the Pacific Ocean stretched all the way inland to present-day Sacramento.