The💡 is to take dirt from VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II project and dump it into the South Bay's fmr salt ponds...to speed their conversion into tidal marshes. “It’s just a terrific benefit if we can make it work.” buff.ly/3UNtvYo via KQED News Joseph Geha

NEW: San Jose's city manager is proposing a big shift in the city's Measure E homeless dollars in '24-'25

an increase for interim housing and shelter, from $7.1M to $31.7M

and a decrease for affordable housing, from $35.6M to $0-11M, contingent on pending deals and grants.

From Storms to Sunscreen: Bay Area Weather Turnaround Is Here

After a weekend of downpours across the Bay Area and snow storms in the Sierra Nevada, forecasters are expecting a complete turnaround in weather this week.

@kqednews @kqescience
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World's Largest Digital Camera Built in the Bay Area to Illuminate Mysteries of the Universe

“I won’t be surprised at all if clever people figure out ways to use the data to hunt for exoplanets.'

Danielle Venton @kqedscience KQED News kqed.org/science/199252…

SUMMER-LIKE DAYS AHEAD
By the end of the week, we have the possibility of our first 90° days of the year in our hottest cities. Would be the warmest air since last October

From Tunnel Muck to Tidal Marsh, BART Extension Could Benefit the Bay

The millions of yards of muck from the BART extension could shave decades off restoration work, reports Joseph Geha

KQED News KQED Science
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On the eastern edge of Imperial County, the Quechan Tribe is working to restore the banks of the parched Colorado River.

The Tribe’s Department of Environmental Protection has led a push to bring back thousands of native trees since 2010.

My latest: kpbs.org/news/environme….

THIS is the kind of wild, hairy, 'what if we...' thinking we need so much more of if we're going to maintain healthy tidal marshes in San Francisco Bay.

Just published a new article … and it’s a doozy: Scientists have found DDT in key species at the base of the deep-sea food web, raising concerns on how this toxic chemical might be infiltrating and circulating through our marine ecosystem latimes.com/environment/st…

From Tunnel Muck to Tidal Marsh, BART Extension Could Benefit the Bay ww2.kqed.org/science/2024/0…

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Saturday's storm is trending stronger for Northern California and the Bay Area, and it could be quite potent for May standards. #CAwx
sfchronicle.com/weather-foreca…

While reporting this story, I learned that Joshua trees are members of the asparagus family.

Now you know this, too.

calmatters.org/environment/20…

Atmospheric Rivers in CA’s Ancient Past Exceeded Modern Storms

“Understanding what happened when we didn’t have this additional layer of climate change is important to consider as a baseline for what to expect,” Clarke Knight

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Jane Fonda received a standing ovation today when the LA County Board of Supervisors, led by Chair Lindsey P. Horvath, officially made April 30 a day to honor *Jane Fonda Day*

“These are not issues of left or right, these are issues of survival,” Jane Seymour Fonda on climate change 🌏🙏

Klamath River update...

The demolition of Iron Gate Dam is scheduled to begin tomorrow (May 1). At 173 feet tall, it's the largest of the four dams to be removed

~ some news ~ it's my first day as a staff writer at grist, where I'll be covering the intersection of climate justice, food and agriculture! I'm thrilled to get started.

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The Biden administration has set to a goal to restore eight million acres of wetlands over the next six years, following a Supreme Court ruling that limited wetland protections under the Clean Water Act: eenews.net/articles/biden…

There are two types of people in the Bay Area: those who have never been to our region’s only 24-hour Filipino restaurant, and those for whom Cafe Colma — the frenetic, perpetually crowded diner located inside a casino — is nothing short of a local icon.
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“Some of the plans that I’m seeing (will) fill Chinatown with affordable housing. That’s not how you build a thriving community. It’s 2024. We should be able to foresee that's not how you treat a cultural minority district that was born through racism.”
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