RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
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RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities

Bay Splendor

San Francisco Bay is actually an estuary—the largest estuary on the Pacific coast of the Americas—and it is a place of great biological diversity. We ...
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Saving Alviso

Chuey Cazares has lived all of his 21 years in Alviso, a tiny hamlet poking into the salt ponds at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Alviso sits ...
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Ill Tidings

T. Jack Foster Jr and his father created Foster City, a community of 30,000 people, by diking, draining and filling San Francisco Bay wetlands. But th...
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Levees & Legacies

Steve Mello farms an island in the Delta, where waters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers merge before flowing through San Francisco Bay. His lo...
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Stemming the Tide

While we must stop adding greenhouse gases to the global atmosphere, conservation and green technologies can no longer keep climate change from impact...
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Swamped

Sea level rise is an effect of global climate change. As oceans absorb heat from carbon pollution, the waters expand. And glacial melt pours more wate...
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