Articles by Tess Townsend

Living with climate change: Fireworks

Governments and businesses can still take bold action to limit global warming, but average temperatures are already rising. As climate change worsens, extreme weather will…



Living with climate change: Evacuate!

Governments and businesses can still take bold action to limit global warming, but average temperatures are already rising. As climate change worsens, extreme weather will…


Vacationing green

Can individual choices help save the planet? Or is the system too rigged? Fishing isn’t supposed to be as easy as dipping a hook into…



Disaster politics

For California governor battling president’s whims, climate change is about science—not politics Government aid should be a given for communities facing disasters, regardless of the political…





Secondary smoke

Is Sacramento ready for the next big wildfire? Sacramento wasn’t ready for the smoke that billowed south from November’s Camp Fire, the deadliest and most…