Green Blog

The changing climate predicted for California including less rain and higher day and nighttime temperatures is expected to cause chronic stress on many street tree species that have shaded and beautified urban areas for decades.

Because periodic droughts will always be a part of life in California, the UC California Institute for Water Resources (CIWR) produced a series of videos to maintain drought awareness and planning, even in years when water is more abundant.

The Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis has announced that Rachel Surls, UC Cooperative Extension sustainable food systems advisor for Los Angeles County, is this year's recipient of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award.

Stretching from the Death Valley to Calexico, California's vast dry desert is home to a unique and important agriculture industry. It's a place where summertime temperatures often top the 115-degree mark.

Although individual extreme weather events cannot yet be reliably linked to global climate change, the warming planet may be contributing to recent weather disasters in California. Across the state, 129 million trees died as a result of the drought of 2011-2016, many of them in the Sierra Nevada.