Bill Anderegg adds his voice as part of a group of researchers from across the United States calling for a scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions (NbCS). Anderegg is the director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and is a GCSC faculty affiliate. In their opinion piece in PNAS, the scientists note […]
Read MoreThe West’s electrical grid is a 136,000-mile patchwork of transmission lines connecting two Canadian provinces, 11 Western states and pieces of three others, serving 80 million people. While it drives a vital and growing piece of the U.S. economy, this fragile network remains vulnerable to increasingly extreme weather and wildfire risks, according to Masood Parvania, […]
Read MoreGCSC affiliate faculty Bill Anderegg, Sara Grineski, Tim Collins and colleagues have published a study looking at the potential effects of wildfire and tree mortality on property values in these areas in the U.S. Earth’s rapidly changing climate is taking an increasingly heavy toll on landscapes around the world in the form of floods, rising […]
Read MoreForests are engaged in a delicate, deadly dance with climate change, hosting abundant biodiversity and sucking carbon dioxide out of the air with billions of leafy straws. They can be a part of the climate solution as long as global warming, with its droughts, wildfires and ecosystem shifts, doesn’t kill them first. In a study […]
Read More“What people eat, and how they get it, are a massive part of a person’s daily experience. Understanding what caused changes in those behaviors in the past is important to understanding how we may respond to changes in the future.” – Kurt Wilson. Kurt is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and a past GCSC […]
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