The workplaces of farmworkers — the vineyards of Sonoma County — are only becoming less hospitable. Sonoma County faced its hottest year in its history in 2020 — bringing with it new temperatures that have rewritten the record books with increasing frequency.

The legislation affects hunger, food security and climate — and it begins expiring next month.

Advocates hail potential for "historic moment" as city council bill bids to increase pay from $9.48 an hour for tipped employees.

The legislation has strayed far from its initial model of labor-minded price floors and supply management to creep into the corners of federal institutions where structural racism thrives.

“Most of America’s biodiversity, sensitive species, landscape connectivity, and natural carbon storage opportunities depend heavily on private working lands,” said Arthur Middleton, a wildlife biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Advisor for Wildlife Conservation at USDA.

An innovative, decade-long experiment in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains shows that carbon stocks buried deep underground are vulnerable to climate change.