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How climate change hit wine country
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How climate change hit wine country

Sunscreen on grapes. Toilet water that is treated and used for irrigation. Napa Valley winemakers are taking extreme steps in the face of climate change.
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How wine country is adapting to climate change

Earthquakes, fires, floods and drought have been a part of Wine Country in the last decade. Napa and Sonoma winemakers discuss what they're doing to adapt to the constantly changing climate.
Politics
Can California’s top wine region survive the era of megafire?

Can California’s top wine region survive the era of megafire?

As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43bn industry is uncertain.

Impacts
Tim Carl: Wildfires have pushed Napa Valley’s wine industry to the brink
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Tim Carl: Wildfires have pushed Napa Valley’s wine industry to the brink

What just a few years ago was a tragedy to be overcome by a handful of winemakers has now become an existential threat to the entire wine industry.
Newsletter
Wildfires force some growers to test their grapes for contamination, while others sit 2020 out

Wildfires force some growers to test their grapes for contamination, while others sit 2020 out

West Coast winemakers have yet another hurdle to overcome this year.
Newsletter
Uncontrolled Glass Fire still raging in Napa Valley, Calistoga and Santa Rosa: ‘Like a bomb went off’
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Uncontrolled Glass Fire still raging in Napa Valley, Calistoga and Santa Rosa: ‘Like a bomb went off’

The wind-whipped Glass and Zogg fires grew overnight with no containment. Flare-ups also forced evacuations in Paradise and Magalia.
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Undocumented farmworkers toil in California fire evacuation zones
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Undocumented farmworkers toil in California fire evacuation zones

Grape growers in Sonoma County are getting exemptions to send in farm workers who have few alternatives or options for support.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Shein’s falling profits reveal cracks in ultra-fast fashion business model

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Climate-fueled disasters surged in 2024 as FEMA’s role faces political threats

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U.S. infrastructure sees small gains from Biden-era funding but major gaps remain

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

CLIMATE
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Trump’s EPA chief moves to dismantle climate protections

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Trump administration halts $1.7 billion in EPA grants for pollution-hit communities