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Library Live: Rosanna Xia

California Against the Sea: Visions for our Vanishing Coastline

LIBRARY LIVE 2024 - 2025

 

The Newport Beach Public Library Foundation presents

We are thrilled to welcome these four brilliant authors to our 2024-25 series. Library Live is for adventurous readers who enjoy hearing from established literary figures and emerging talent. Novelists, poets, historians, journalists, biographers, memoirists and more share their ideas firsthand with our community. Participate, engage, and be challenged by our presentations with today’s most gifted scribes.

 

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Rosanna Xia

California Against the Sea: Visions for our Vanishing Coastline

Thursday, November 7, 2024, 7 p.m. 

 Buy Tickets:  https://nbplf.foundation/programs/library-live-24-25/

 

Celebrated environmental journalist Rosanna Xia explores sea level rise along the West Coast, focusing on California’s coastline imperiled by the rising Pacific Ocean. Through human stories and ecological dramas, she delves into the impacts of engineered landscapes, development pressures, and activism shaping the coastline. Xia’s investigation spans from the Mexican border to the North Coast, highlighting the voices of various stakeholders advocating for climate-wise coastal stewardship. The narrative emphasizes the urgency of addressing climate change to secure a sustainable future for coastal communities in CaliforniaRosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting.


**Programs starts at 7:00pm and check-in at 6:30pm

 

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