{"id":246602,"date":"2024-02-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/los-angeles-just-showed-how-spongy-a-city-can-be\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:16:29","slug":"los-angeles-just-showed-how-spongy-a-city-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/los-angeles-just-showed-how-spongy-a-city-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles just showed how spongy a city can be"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This story was originally published by\u00a0WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped\u00a09 inches of rain on the city\u00a0over three days \u2014 over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It\u2019s the kind of extreme rainfall that\u2019ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The city\u2019s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years L.A. has been transforming into a \u201csponge city,\u201d replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out \u201cspreading grounds,\u201d where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/extreme-weather\/los-angeles-just-showed-how-spongy-a-city-can-be\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by\u00a0WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration. Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped\u00a09 inches of rain on the city\u00a0over three days \u2014 over half of what the city typically gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":246603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Los Angeles just showed how spongy a city can be - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/extreme-weather\/los-angeles-just-showed-how-spongy-a-city-can-be\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Los Angeles just showed how spongy a city can be\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This story was originally published by\u00a0WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration. 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