DESPITE THE EFFORTS of President Donald Trump’s administration to erase the concept of human-caused global warming by deleting climate-related federal funding, climate change is still happening. Bay Area leaders have not halted their efforts to prepare cities for sea level rise and increasing environmental hazards.

Government officials, environmental groups, urban planners and social justice consultants gathered this week for 2025 Rising Together: The Bay Adapt Summit. It was the second-annual summit, but it sold out fast. On Sunday, participants joined walking tours in cities at risk of flooding from sea level rise. On Monday, the summit concluded with an all-day meeting at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.