Climate change is battering California.

Wildfires, heat waves, droughts, floods, sea level rise, they're all getting worse.

That's why the Golden State is burning less oil and gas and investing in renewable power.

I'm Sammy Roth. I've been reporting on energy and climate change in California and across the American West for a decade.

I've seen firsthand how these stories touch lives, livelihoods, and landscapes.

Sometimes for worse, sometimes for better.

From the Los Angeles Times, this is Boiling Point.

I'll be asking scientists, politicians,

activists and journalists the same questions. What are the challenges we face to building a better

world? And what are the solutions we need to embrace, even when it's hard? Boiling Point will be

available everywhere you listen to podcasts starting January 16.

How are business leaders working to confront climate change?

For that answer, listen to the award-winning climate rising podcast, produced by Harvard Business School and hosted by me, Mike Toffel, a professor at HBS.

Each episode, we share a behind-the-scenes view into how startups and the biggest businesses,

like Microsoft, Google, and Seventh Generation are tackling the central issue of our era.

Check out Climate Rising, wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm standing in line to board a ferry alongside at least 100 other people.

With me are Rosie Julin, our producer on the catch, and Mustafa Manet, a journalist and activist from Cartong in the Gambia.

Naturally, the three of us are looking forward to being out in the water.

This is a podcast about fisheries and fisher people and their love of the ocean, after all,

but that's not what we're out to see today.

We're headed to Gouré, a small island in the Atlantic, only a 30-minute ferry ride from

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