As Bobby Kennedy taught us, the thing about hope is that it travels through space *and* time, first splashing against the rocks, but eventually breaking down the walls of cruelty and injustice. And if we do our best with the time we’re given, others will take hope in our example.

Update: six days later, statewide snowpack is down to 8% of avg for date. Rapid melting & sublimation continues amid an unusually early spate of critical fire weather conditions (driven by record-dry vegetation for the date, anomalous warmth, and offshore winds). #CAwx #CAfire

Want to help people who have lost their homes to the #DixieFire? Here are some ways to help. plumasnews.com/want-to-help-d…

75% of water in Ca. State Water Project comes from Feather River (blue). No forest canopy in high elevations means no shade, snow melts quicker, and we have less water available late in the summer. It's a really big deal. Here is the area burned in past 12 months. #DixieFire

This is from a climate scientist as NASA. Please call your state representative in the Senate and tell them how important it is that we act on climate change now. (202) 224-3121 #Dixiefire #Climatechange #Hope #Action

There is a lot of important information about the future of our climate in the nearly 4,000 pages of the new IPCC 6th Assessment Report WG1. Thankfully Carbon Brief is here with a massive, easy to understand Q&A to explain most of the important parts: carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-th…

Just for comparison, San Francisco is 46.87 square miles, New York is 304 square miles, Los Angeles is 472 square miles and the Dixie Fire is now 800 square miles. The Dixie Fire is just roughly short of all these cities combined. Food for thought. #dixiefire,

#DixieFire (Plumas/Butte/Lassen Co) - Radio traffic saying just now that the firing operations have been completed in Division 'U' which is just east of #Chester & that fire remains within control lines.

This is a striking graphic.

Largest Ever #Algae Bloom Continues to Spread on Pacific Coast bit.ly/1DnvJ5c

Marines who lowered the flag at the US Embassy in Havana in 1961 are heading back to raise it: nyti.ms/1Eo3jDa

EXPLAINER: OK, the Federal budget process isn't sexy. But it is important: ow.ly/TYtbV

Smoke filled sky from fire in the Mission at Shotwell

Fibers from your winter fleece are adding to the plastic junk in the environment. nyti.ms/1Nfx8ZI

Toxic Fog? Mercury Showing Up in Coastal California Fog Banks ow.ly/W5twj

Ever notice the brick circles in some of San Francisco's intersections? kalw.org/post/whats-ben…

"Viral bathroom bomb" is a label you'd like to avoid arstechnica.com/science/2016/0…

Measure AA: small tax, big difference for #SFBay. Vote Yes on AA to restore wetlands and stop pollution.

Recent rulings on #salmon as "reminders of the obligations to both #nature and treaty law." nyti.ms/29ihEg2

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