Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How climate change is transforming California’s farms
Agriculture is big business in California. But the industry faces a reckoning with the threat of climate change, especially in the Central Valley.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readAgriculture is big business in California. But the industry faces a reckoning with the threat of climate change, especially in the Central Valley. Just outside Modesto, farmers and researchers are trying to develop new farming techniques to help the region better transition to the hotter, drier, and saltier climate on the horizon.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Mark Schapiro
environmental journalist, Berkeley lecturer, and author of “Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply”
The full episode
3 of 3Robert Mueller testimony: highlights and analysis- 0:00Robert Mueller testifies: What wasn't in his report?
- 19:23How a TV celeb with no political experience remade the GOP
- 40:19How climate change is transforming California’s farmsYou’re reading this