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Premieres Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Sunday, April 23 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. In its second year, CHANGING PLANET revisits six of our planet's most vulnerable ecosystems and catches up with the truly inspiring people introduced in the first season: scientists and local experts fighting to safeguard their communities and wildlife, and charting the progress of their game-changing environmental projects.

Nearly all Californians will be asked to further cut back on their water use as drought continues in the nation's most populous state.

Police predict that as the water level drops because of drought, more bodies will be found.

The megadrought bedeviling the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200 years.

Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping.

Freeze warnings were issued for the north coast, freeze watches posted for central coast interior valley, and frost advisories were issued for the Sacramento Valley.

The Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers are central arms of California's water system.

State energy officials say threats from drought, extreme heat and wildfires are creating challenges for energy reliability.

Please join us for this important talk, with Q&A, by Deepti Singh, Ph.D. The western U.S. has experienced several climate-driven extreme events in recent years ranging from record-breaking heat, drought, and intense flood-inducing rainfall. Such widespread extreme events have simultaneously affected a large geographic region affecting disaster management resources, an individual’s ability to avoid impacts, and various societal sectors. Date | Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 5:30pm Location | Virtual Zoom Link Register here! This talk will discuss observed trends in such extremes, their projections, and potential societal consequences. Deepti is an assistant professor in the School of the Environment at Washington State University. Prior to joining WSU, she received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2015 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University from 2015-2018. Her research aims to advance our understanding of climate hazards affecting vulnerable communities with the goal of providing actionable information for designing policies, risk-management, and adaptation planning. She studies the influence of human activities on weather and climate events occurring on local to global scales. For further information visit the website: https://ncccalliance.org/event/changing-risk-of-compound-extremes-in-a-warming-climate/

The Savannah Bananas, an entertaining baseball team, recently took on some retired Major League Baseball players in a game that proved just how much fun this version of baseball can be.