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The Chile-California Council celebrated a decade of building bridges between Chile and California during the October 19 annual meeting held virtually. The Chile-California Council (CCC) is a binational nonprofit organization, established in San Francisco with 501(c)(3) status, that promotes mutually beneficial relationships and the exchange of knowledge between Chile and California in the public and […]

Sister Cities International recognized and awarded the Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. Viña del Mar Operations Council for “Innovation for Business, Trade, and Professional Exchange for a City with a Population under 25,000.“ This is the second time Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. has been recognized by Sister Cities International. The first was for “Best Overall Program […]

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System The thick fog that cloaks California shorelines over summer has an atmospheric counterpart south of the equator. Marine fog not only drenches coastal sections of the South American nation of Chile, but is so reliable that some communities there use fog for drinking water. And in both areas, […]

California is gaining in the world’s economy.Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesByMatthew A. Winkler Gavin Newsom is as familiar as anyone with the media narrative of earthquakes, persistent wildfires, droughts, homelessness and companies fleeing California to Texas for a tax- and regulation-free lifestyle. This is nothing new. California’s governor recalls a 1994 Time Magazine cover story citing […]

DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — With California struggling through historic drought, the state’s Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a desalination plant that could turn up to 5 million gallons of seawater a day into drinkable water. The commission voted 11-0 to approve the proposed Doheny Ocean Desalination Project in Dana Point, southeast of Los Angeles […]

Miguel Ángel Altieri In order to safeguard and support world’s agricultural heritage systems in 2002 FAO launched a UN Partnership initiative for the conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage systems (GIAHS). The initiative aims to establish the basis for international recognition, dynamic conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems […]

Some scientists are concerned that San Francisco’s most iconic meteorological phenomenon is on its way out. It’s Thursday. Why fog is so vital to life in California. Plus, new research shows that worsening smoke from wildfires may have reversed decades of improvements in Western air quality. Nina Riggio for The New York Times||Coastal fog isn’t […]

Claire Arre, a marine biologist in Orange County, Calif., aims to combat climate change using nature instead of human-engineered construction.Credit…Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times NEWPORT BAY, Calif. — Claire Arre, a marine biologist, waded through the sand in search of an Olympia oyster on a recent sunny afternoon, monitoring the bed her organization […]

Mark Ghilarducci, the state’s emergency services director, right, with Gov. Gavin Newsom as he signed wildfire legislation in 2019. Ghilarducci has worked in emergency services for four decades. John G Mabanglo/EPA, via Shutterstock Three times in the last four years, Mark Ghilarducci has tried to retire from his decade-long job as the head of emergency services […]