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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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wine country climate impacts
www.kqed.org

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.

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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
Person wearing green jacket with the word Greenpeace on the back.

Greenpeace verdict over pipeline protest defamation could spell problems for environmental activism and speech

A petrochemical plant on the water at nighttime.

Petrochemical industry struggles with overcapacity, rising costs, and shaky green investments

The word plastic spelled out in multicolored letters.

Plastic ban in Bangladesh struggles as eco-friendly bags face high costs

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A black and white photo of the supreme court

Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice

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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
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro speaks with the state flag and American flag behind him.

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

An NOAA truck with a weather satellite on the back.

Trump’s government cuts disrupt NOAA forecasts and data collection