Join us for an inspiring Cove Talk with Rosanna Xia, award-winning environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times and author of California Against the Sea.

Through years of reporting on California’s coastline, oceans, and communities, Rosanna has become one of the state’s leading voices on climate change and sea level rise. In this engaging conversation, she will share stories from the front lines of a changing coast, exploring how rising seas are already reshaping California—and what choices lie ahead.

Blending investigative journalism, human stories, and hopeful solutions, this discussion invites us to think deeply about resilience, adaptation, and our evolving relationship with the Pacific Ocean. Grounded in both urgency and optimism, Rosanna’s perspective offers a powerful lens into one of the defining environmental challenges of our time.

Location: Special Event Deck at #34

Meet Rosanna:

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. Xia was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her celebrated book, “California Against the Sea,” received the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, a gold medal from the California Book Awards, and a special citation from the Library of Congress, among other honors. She has been praised for her investigative reporting and narrative storytelling, and her journalism has been anthologized in the “Best American Science and Nature Writing” series. Xia’s most recent project, the feature documentary “Out of Plain Sight,” is a cinematic expansion of one of her most haunting environmental exposés. The documentary has received numerous film festival honors, including the audience award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Jackson Wild Media Award for Best Investigative Film.