series climate-change-in-californias-central-valley 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 26, 2022
California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. The Central Valley produces about 25% of our nation’s food , despite occupying just 1% of nationwide farmland. Air pollution in the Central Valley.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 21, 2022
Over the years, my family and I have driven up, down, and across California’s Central Valley on road trips from our home in the Bay Area. As part of our series on climate change in the Central Valley , this post focuses on the risks climate change and extreme heat pose to farmworkers and other outdoor workers in the region.
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Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 14, 2021
This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 13, 2022
This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. Who Should Pay to Fix California’s Sunken Canals?
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
On a mid-October day he is here at the mouth of austere Whites Valley, where about five families harvest dryland grain, and where Child has leased grazing land for two decades. “I Whites Valley, a dimple in the sage-covered hills just south of the Idaho border, might not be an ag valley much longer. It’s a sickness.”.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it. But climate change and land use decisions have intensified these trends, plunging the country into one natural disaster after another. This Central Valley Town Has a Carcinogen in its Water.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Once concentrated in southwest Michigan, high-volume irrigation wells have spread north as far as Antrim County, and through central Michigan. Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – September 27, 2021.
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