SACRAMENTO, California, March 4 -- The International Code Council issued the following news release: California Strengthens Resiliency with Adoption of 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code(R) Comprehensive, statewide adoption aims to boost wildfire mitigation efforts On February 26, 2025, the State of California adopted the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code(R) (IWUIC(R)) as the basis for Title 24, Part 7, 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code to address e  more

BOULDER, Colorado, March 4 -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * Sea otters help kelp forests recover -- but how fast depends on where they are New modeling method helped researchers understand why kelp forest returned more slowly in Southern California than in British Columbia When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to area  more