California
Can Santa Cruz turn back the tide?
It is one among many coastal California communities dropping shoreline to rising seas and punishing, climate-driven seas — and it is occurring years forward of schedule
Intense storms like those that simply rolled by way of California, mixed with rising sea ranges, are endangering scenic shoreline areas like West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, the place massive chunks of bluffs fell into the ocean earlier this month.
On this episode of the Fifth & Mission podcast, reporter Kurtis Alexander tells host Cecilia Lei that coastal communities are having to take care of issues like this years earlier than they thought they’d need to.
Picture above: Staff repairing West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz on Jan. 23.