3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (765+ words) Sonoma Valley Sun Richard Dale Named Sonoma County Climate Crisis Champion Looking Back on Four Decades of Building Common Ground in Sonoma Valley If you ask anyone about Richard Dale, Sonoma Ecology Center’s co-founder and executive director, recently named this…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (145+ words) This article was originally published by Active Norcal. The El Niño that scientists have been warning about for months is now official, and the implications for Northern California are enormous. If it reaches that level, the 2026-27 El Niño could rank…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1660+ words) California just gave plastic producers until 2032 to make all their packaging recyclable or compostable — the most ambitious deadline in the country. Advocates say it doesn’t go far enough. Producers say it goes too far. At least one of them is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (56+ words) By Richard Dale Dale, the Founder and Executive Director of the Sonoma Ecology Center, made these remarks at the ceremony where Congressman Mike Thompson presented him the Climate Crisis Champion Award. Thinking back on years of work that have brought…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (745+ words) By Rachel Becker This article was first published by CalMatters California clocked its second-worst snowpack on record Wednesday, a potentially troubling signal ahead for fire season. It’s an alarming end to a winter that saw abnormally dry conditions briefly wiped…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (289+ words) This article was originally published by Active NorCal Northern California just shook off drought conditions entirely, but forecasters say the relief could be short-lived. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released a three-month outlook showing drought is likely to return across large…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1206+ words) by Rachel Becker This article was originally published by CalMatters A record-baking heat wave is scalding California, with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir: its snowpack. Providing about a third of the state’s water supply, the Sierra Nevada…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (149+ words) Many native bees spend winter asleep in stems, leaves, and underground burrows. A quiet garden helps them wake up in spring! Leave dead plant stems standing; they shelter mason and leafcutter bees. Avoid disturbing bare soil; mining and sweat bees…...

8+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (394+ words) When federal agencies began moving quickly this year to expand offshore oil and gas drilling and advance permits for deep-sea mining, counties up and down the California coast faced a common challenge with limited opportunities for public input. On Nov....

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (320+ words) Earlier this fall, the City of Sonoma Mayor Patricia Farrar-Rivas participated in Climate Week NYC through the Climate Mayors network, a coalition of more than 750 U.S. mayors advancing local solutions to global climate challenges. This year’s theme, #ImpactMultiplied, underscored how city-led…...