Forest thinning helped keep the Caldor Fire from burning into South Lake Tahoe, but experts say more fuel management and climate action are needed to slow the Sierra s destructive wildfires.
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Marquita Price outside her grandmother s house in East Oakland. She worries that contaminated rising groundwater threatens the health of her family and their assets. Laura Klivans/KQED
Marquita Price grew up spending lots of time at her grandmother s one-story lavender house in Deep East Oakland. It s a place she s always considered home, and where her grandmother still lives. So Price, an urban planner, was upset to learn about a lesser-known aspect of climate change fueled by sea level rise: it could cause the groundwater beneath this formerly-industrial community to rise, and wreak slow-motion havoc in the process.