California International Studies Project

Finalists for the 2020 Storytellers of the Year Building data-driven stories for global change through the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition for the Sustainable Development Goals

S**o Middle School students raising cash to buy, conserve, land Their goal is $70,000, to purchase an 8-acre parcel in north S**o.

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Opinion | How Europeans See America We asked young, ordinary Europeans to take a look at U.S. policies on everything from food to guns. As they discover facts about America, they’re not impressed.

Why You Should Let Nature Take Over Your Lawn Turning your perfectly unnatural (yet impressively green!) lawn into an imperfectly wild(ish) piece of land requires a little time and energy at first. And then...a lot less mowing.

UNHCR Historical Refugee Data Explore the UNHCR statistical data with this visualization

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International Migrants by Country of Destination, 1960-2017 International migration has more than tripled in size since 1960, rising from 77 million to almost 258 million in 2015. To see how the international migrant population has changed by country over time (by decade from 1960 onwards and in 2017), check out this handy tool. Select the country of interes...

Humans will have to develop advanced skills in ecological restoration if we are going to achieve sustainability. California's beloved redwood forests are getting some much-needed attention. Learn more about it.

can be tough when we post images of logged landscapes that we later inherited.

So, today let’s celebrate good news and a hopeful future! As you might know, for decades we have been doing forest and river restoration in smaller sections across Redwood National and State Parks.

"Redwoods Rising" is a massive, landscape-scale restoration project that will (fingers crossed) start this autumn. Tonight on NBC Nightly News, you can catch Redwood National Park’s superintendent talk about this exciting project.

Photo: NPS. [Image Description: Background collage of a man standing on logged redwood stumps and old-growth forest trail. The words "Redwoods Rising" is in the foreground]