MEDIA AND SHARING:

• New water supply + wildfire research and policy coordination network (UCLA)

• UCLA, UC ANR establish water supply-wildfire research and policy coordination network (UC Ag and Natural Resources)

• Californian fires have inflamed age-old debate over water supply (Sunday Post)

• California's Problem Now Isn't Fire—It's Rain (Wired)

• Wildfire and Water Infrastructure (Water Talk podcast)

• Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles (Washington Post)

• Here's what really caused L.A. fire hydrants to run out of water (National Geographic)

• LA Fire Hydrants Running Dry Poses New Danger in Combating Blazes (Bloomberg)

• The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Created Another Problem—Unsafe Drinking Water (Wired)

• Why fire hydrants and water supply failed during Los Angeles wildfires (Al Jazeera) 

• 'A new wildfire paradigm': Why California fires are growing larger and more destructive (USA Today)

• An even bigger threat is looming behind California’s fires (Vox)

• Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires ravaged Los Angeles (Axios)

• California environmental policies misleadingly blamed for LA fires (AFP)

• Why Misinformation About the L.A. Fires Keeps Spreading (Heatmap)

• Why the L.A. Fires Are Exceptionally Hard to Fight (Heatmap)

• Trump’s Cabinet Picks Face Confirmation Hearings This Week (Heatmap) 

• Conservatives blame California wildfires on Delta smelt fish, DEI and more (NBC News)

• Los Angeles wildfires most destructive in city’s history (BBC: The World Tonight (around 16:20))

• California wildfires: How and why did fire hydrants run dry across Los Angeles? (The Independent) 

• Here’s exactly how and why fire hydrants ran out of water during the LA wildfires (The Tab) 

• Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth (book by Kate Schapira, April 2024)

• Talk isn't cheap: The power of conversation (Climate One podcast, March 2024)

• Water Wisdom: A deep dive into wildfires and water conservation with Dr. Faith Kearns (We the Children podcast, March 2024)

• The Hero's Lyrics (Across the Cline podcast, July 2023)

• So Sorry For Your Loss (book by Dina Gachman, April 2023)

• Why California Can’t Catch a Break (The Atlantic, April 2023)

• Addressing the emotional toll of drought (UC ANR Green Blog, February 2023)

• Why we need new words for life in the Anthropocene (BBC, January 2023)

• Emotion and Communication about Science (The Measure of Everyday Life, December 2022)

• California drought raises red flags for agriculture (The Hill, September 2022)

• Most Californians view state’s water shortage as extremely serious, poll finds (LA Times, August 2022)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement Book Review (Natural Areas Journal, August 2022)

• ‘A subtraction problem:’ A shrinking Colorado River faces sharp, sudden cuts (Nevada Independent, June 2022)

• Book review: Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, June 2022)

• 11 Books to Upskill and Make More Money as a Freelance Science Writer (Fancy Comma, June 2022)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement Book Review (Native Plants Journal, June 2022)

• How Cities Can Get to the Heart of Science Communication (Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, May 2022)

• A drought so bad it exposed a long-ago homicide. Getting the water back will be harder than ever (LA Times, May 2022)

• Logging into the Deep History of Climate, with Erika Wise (Resources Radio, April 2022)

• Climate Adaptation: The Basics (Kneedeep Times, March 2022)

• Review: The Pentecost of climate change (America: The Jesuit Review, March 2022)

• Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1,200 years, study finds (Washington Post, February 2022)

• Getting to the Heart of Water Communication (Water Talk podcast, February 2022)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (What Matters Water TV and Podcast, January 2022)

• Talking Science: It's Not Just About the Facts (National Grape Research Alliance, November 2021)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement (Breakthroughs, October 2021)

• Compassionate communication key to spurring action on research results (Times Higher Ed, August 2021)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (Speak Good podcast, August 2021)

• Drought-Stricken California Hasn't Mandated Statewide Water Restrictions. Here's Why (KQED Science, July 2021)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication with Dr. Faith Kearns (Beyond the Bench podcast, July 2021)

• Wildfires tear through 1m acres in US west as 16,000 firefighters battle onslaught (Guardian, July 2021)

• State Has Still Not Issued Drought Mandate (KQED Morning Report, July 2021)

• American west stuck in cycle of ‘heat, drought and fire’, experts warn (Guardian, July 2021)

• Is California ready for brown lawns and shorter showers? Drought requires less water use (LA Times, July 2021)

• Reservoirs are drying up as consequences of the Western drought worsen (Washington Post, July 2021)

• Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate (Climate One podcast, June 2021)

• Faith Kearns: Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (New Books Network podcast, June 2021)

• UCANR Scientist Publishes Guide to Science Communication (Ag Info Network, May 2021)

• Faith Kearns: Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (Science + Story podcast, May 2021)

• The conventional wisdom on how to talk about climate change? It’s wrong. (Grist, May 2021)

• More than the Message (Science, May 2021)

• Communicating about climate crisis and other scientific issues requires more than facts (UC Ag and Natural Resources, May 2021)

• Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement (Booklist, May 2021)

• Water Talk Podcast (Ag Info Network, May 2021)

• Water Talk Podcast Launches Season 2: ‘Drought Is Back!’ (UC Davis)

• When blazes spark, ‘Fire Twitter’ heats up (San Francisco Chronicle, October 2020)

• A pandemic meets fire season: How California will fight wildfires amid coronavirus (Sacramento Bee, July 2020)

• Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy (May 2020, honored to appear in this book by Dani Anguino and Alastair Gee)

• Road to Change: America's Climate Crisis (CNN Special Reports, April 2020)

• Climate change Is changing how we deal with wildfires (Newsy, October 2019)

• How climate change primed California’s power shutdown (National Geographic, October 2019)

• The Land of Dreams and Drought  (Climate One, August 2019)

• Some saw deadly Camp Fire as the 'new normal.' Experts say we already know how to prevent a repeat (Arizona Republic, July 2019)

• The weight of the world (Mother Jones, July/August 2019)

• In California, ‘enough’ water is never enough (Western Farm Press, June 2019)

• Why it's so hard to live in California (Slate, May 2019)

• California's dry winter means much of the state is in drought again (Salon, January 2019)

• Our Favorite Bay Nature Stories of 2018 (Bay Nature, December 2018)

• Deadly, destructive fires happening to more Californians, over and over again (Ventura County Star, December 2018)

• Last day in Paradise: the untold story of how a fire swallowed a town  (Guardian, December 2018)

• Wildfire scientists brace for hotter, more flammable future as Paradise lies in ashes (CNN, December 2018)

• Living on the edge (Slate, November 2018)

• See how a warmer world primed California for large fires (National Geographic, November 2018)

• California's Changing Climate (Marc Guzman Experience podcast, November 2018)

• Don't Blame Storm Victims for This  (Earther/Gizmodo, October 2018)

• Lack of snowpack leaves the West hung out to dry (Grist, March 2018)

• Wandering the Web: Feminism, Reading, Thoreau Surveying, and California Water Photography (Watershed Moments, March 2018)

• California agriculture faces serious threats from climate change, study finds (Desert Sun, February 2018)

  • From Almonds To Rice, Climate Change Could Slash California Crop Yields By 2050 (NPR, March 2018)

  • Study indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture (LA Times, March 2018)

  • New Study Details How Climate Change Will Affect California Agriculture (Modern Farmer, March 2018)

  • To feed the nation, California farmers must adapt to a warming climate, study says (Fresno Bee, March 2018)

  • New Study: Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out (Mother Jones, March 2018)

  • How climate change might eliminate strawberries (New York Daily News, March 2018)

  • Will we see almonds moving up to British Columbia? (Grist, February 2018)

  • Study: Climate Change Threatens Major Crops in California (KQED, February 2018)

  • New study - Climate change threatens major crops in California (Digital Journal, February 2018)

  • Climate change could decimate California’s major crops, and that should concern everyone (Think Progress, February 2018)

  • Report: Climate Change Could Ruin California’s Farming Industry (Courthouse News Service, February 2018)

  • Come 2050, Californians Will Wish They Had More Dams (GV Wire, February 2018)

• UCCE to be a leader in climate change awareness and education (UC ANR Green Blogs, Western Farm Press, February 2018)

• The NeverEnding (#drought) Story (UC Food Observer, February 2018)

• When it comes to nature, what language are we speaking? (Watershed Moments, February 2018)

• What motivates us to act on climate: Fear or hope? (Watershed Moments, January 2018)

• Trends we're watching in 2018 (UC Food Observer, January 2018)

• California's climate emergency (Rolling Stone, December 2017)

• Building climate change into the work of UCANR (UC ANR Blogs, December 2017)

• Socially constructed silence: Protecting policymakers from the unthinkable (Transformation, June 2016)

• ESA's Evolution in Public Policy and Media Outreach from 1993 to 2013 (Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, April 2016)

• Putting people first: 3 ways to approach climate communications (ecoAmerica, December 2015)

• It's the end of the world: How do you feel? (Ozy, October 2015)

• Residents told to keep up conservation (San Jose Mercury News, September 2015)

• California drought's newest battlefront is bottled water (CBC News, May 2015)

• Ecologists reaching out #reachingoutsci (Ecological Society of America, May 2013)

• California ablaze (KQED Radio, September 2008)

• A guide to using the Fire Information Engine Toolkit (TV segment, ABC7 News, October 2007)

• The Fire Information Engine Toolkit (TV segment, KRON4 News, October 2006)

• The Fire Information Engine Toolkit (TV segment, CBS5 News, September 2006)

• Web site assesses fire danger (Oakland Tribune, September 2006)

• Careers in ecology (The Scientist, August 2000)