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Manola Secaira is CapRadio’s environment and climate change reporter. Before that, she worked for Crosscut in Seattle as an Indigenous Affairs reporter.
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June 30, 2023
Lorie Shelley retired at the end of June. CapRadio visited her office at the Capitol before her retirement to ask her what she’s learned over the years and what it’s like to be a fly-on-the-wall in California’s Senate.
June 27, 2023
Local groups say early pandemic visitors highlighted issues like litter, congestion and rising housing costs.
June 12, 2023
State officials say beavers could be key in fighting climate change impacts, like drought and wildfire conditions.
May 30, 2023
A wet winter brought record snowpack to California and might change how and where wildfires pop up in the state during warmer months.
May 24, 2023
Snowmelt resulting from last winter’s record snowpack has caused more extreme river conditions, increasing the risk for people recreating in them.
May 16, 2023
In 2015, Berryessa Snow Mountain became a national monument. But Molok Luyuk, nestled along the eastern side of the monument’s center, was excluded.
May 12, 2023
Though the budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion, Newsom said he does not plan to dip into the state’s rainy day fund, instead proposing a mix of funding delays, cuts and renewing a tax on health insurers.
May 2, 2023
For the final statewide snowpack survey of the year, researchers at Phillips Station near Lake Tahoe recorded a snow depth of nearly 5 feet.
April 25, 2023
City officials say the period of winter storms in January 2023 was one of the more expensive the city has recorded in the past few decades.
April 18, 2023
Advocates of the bill say current monitoring is inconsistent and data collected isn’t always easily accessible to the public.
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