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Salt marshes are vulnerable intertidal wetlands crucial to the coastal ecosystem. They guard, they protect, and they’re disappearing fast. Watch the video on Youtube.com.

California Coastal Commission’s Climate Video Challenge For California middle and high school students Millions of people around the world, especially youth, are fighting to prevent and adapt to climate change: pushing to end fossil fuel extraction and use, and for clean energy jobs, conservation of natural habitats, indigenous fire management, Read more

ReWilding the Coast: A Discussion on San Diego’s Mission Bay Project A conversation on the ReWild Mission Bay project. Join Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham on the American Shoreline Podcast as they discuss the ReWild Mission Bay project with Andrew Meyer, Karina Ornelas, and Nora Ives of the San Diego Read more

The winners of the California Coastal Commission’s (CCC) Coastal Art & Poetry Contest are announced! Ten winners and forty honorable mentions have been selected from this year’s entries. On the website you’ll find beautiful, powerful, and playful art and poetry and personal statements from the artists. The CCC is sending Read more

Enjoy this great and short video from our friends at San Diego Audubon. As a reminder, the ReWild Mission Bay plan is to restore some of the historic Rose Creek wetlands that stretched from today’s current Kendall-Frost Marsh almost to Interstate 5. Interested in learning more about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Read more

Taking refuge from the coronavirus pandemic, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn set out to record all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England, filming them with one-of-a-kind lenses he forged on his kitchen table. Learn more at PBS.org About

This video features Rick Halsey, founder of the California Chaparral Institute, and is about the California Chaparral biome, a wonderful, yet totally misunderstood biome found across the state.

Normally, we feature great videos on wetlands from an environmental perspective. Today’s short video is from the Oro Loma wastewater treatment plant pilot project on using Green Infrastructure (aka natural solutions) to solve human created problems and challenges.

A perspective from the European Union’s MaCoBioS project. Climate change is upon us, and the urgency to act against it has never been so high. The ever-increasing emission of carbon dioxide over the past century must be reversed and has become a global priority. The sea level is rising, and Read more

In this short cartoon, you will learn why salt marshes, like the ones at the south end of Rose Creek, are critical for human health and livelihood.  If you are wondering why we need to restore a large swath of wetlands at the mouth of Rose Creek, watch this video.  Read more