When Carson Jeffres looks at the Yolo Bypass, he sees much more than a heavily trafficked strip of I-80 cutting across land meant for water overflow and agriculture. He sees an ecosystem amidst transformation, one integral to making California, as Jeffres calls it, a “salmon society.” Jeffres shared this vision of California as a salmon society with a packed house at G Street WunderBar for the May edition of the Davis Science Café.

While not nearly as prevalent or long-lived in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, increasing methane emissions are a problem for the environment. Responsible for about one-third of the Earth’s warming, methane is about 80 times more powerful in terms of global heating than carbon dioxide. Oceanographer Tessa Hill talks about what can be done to mitigate this.