Ocean Way Festival Cancellation Signals Growing Need to Protect Where We Play

On September 11, the highly anticipated Ocean Way concert in Santa Monica, California was canceled after Hurricane Marie eroded a large portion of the festival site over Labor Day weekend. Climate experts have linked the severity of Hurricane Marie to the historic “super” El Niño weather cycle currently setting record temperatures around the world. The two-day festival, organised by the team behind Coachella and set to feature headline acts from the Killers, Olivia Dean, Jack White and Sublime, among others, joins a growing list of major disruptions by extreme weather…

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