Terrestrial Water
Water. A resource so valuable in California, guidelines for its use had to be included in the state’s Constitution. Article X of the California Constitution establishes the ‘reasonable and beneficial use’ clause, and is the focus of pivotal water rights lawsuits in the modern era which ask, “what are reasonable and beneficial uses of water?”…
Climate Cycles
In order to understand California’s climate, the natural cycles that govern the state must be investigated. Californian climate is dependent on several main cycles: the seasonal cycle, multiple climate variability cycles, and the hydrological cycle. In collaboration these produce a temperate climate and allows California to bolster the 5th largest economy in the world. The…
Coastal Waters
The global ocean is a magnificent feature of the Earth’s surface. Often referred to as ‘primordial soup’, the global ocean hosts all of the necessary parameters for complex life to emerge if given enough time and climatic stability. The state of our global oceans is changing at a rate never before observed in earth history…
Wildfires
In the last five years, California has experienced record-breaking wildfires, creating orange skies and apocalyptic scenes each fall. The five largest wildfires since 1932, when accurate record-keeping began, have occurred since 2017. 2017 saw the Thomas fire burn 280,000 acres in December. 2018 saw the Mendocino Complex and Carr fire burn 688,000 acres in July.…
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