California’s Highway 1 road conditions will only get riskier, experts say – the Guardian
![Failure on Highway 1 on the Big Sur Coast south of the Rocky Creek Bridge (Courtesy of Caltrans District 5, public domain via X).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GKCcwsJacAA9knX-675x900.jpeg)
Chunk of famed route crumbled into sea causing another closure, and conditions are expected to only worsen with climate crisis…
Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier. The race to understand them is on – the Guardian
![Earth from Orbit: From late Dec. 2022 into Jan. 2023, a series of nine “atmospheric rivers” dumped a record amount of rain and mountain snow across the western U.S. and Canada, hitting California particularly hard. More than 32 trillion gallons of water rained down across the state, and the moisture also pushed into much of the Intermountain West. (courtesy of NOAA Satellites, GOES-18 (GOES West) water vapor imagery, Public Domain, via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/52660935489_feeb40507e_c-798x449.jpg)
As the climate crisis supercharges storms over the Pacific, scientists are creating tools that can measure them from the inside..
‘Inside we are all struggling’: storm-bruised California begins recovery – the Guardian
![Flooding in Felton Grove, California ©2023 Ryan Bennett.](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/FullSizeRender-2-798x599.jpg)
From hillside towns like Felton to the picturesque coastal enclave of Capitola, the long road to recovery from disaster is only beginning. The county was declared a major disaster zone by Joe Biden, who visited Capitola on Thursday to survey the damage and said it would “take years to rebuild”…