LA Times: To the editor: The article on California’s struggle to protect homes and infrastructure from storms and rising seas without sacrificing its beaches points to a larger problem: We keep treating coastal erosion and flooding as emergencies to clean up after rather than threats to prepare for (“California’s plan to save coastal homes from… Continue reading Letters to the Editor: Santa Monica project shows a better way for California to handle beach erosion
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The planet’s other forest crisis
LA Times: The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, volunteer divers and conservationists. Nor is the threat to kelp localized. Rather the loss, like the expansion of mega-wildfires on land from Los Angeles… Continue reading The planet’s other forest crisis