ECOLOGY

Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its limits. As the sun sets, solar panels will start generating less electricity even as temperatures remain high. Power plants that burn natural gas will fire […]

Sewage details analyzed in Silicon Valley wastewater therapy vegetation confirms that the latest wave of coronavirus infections is sharply worse than the kinds in the spring and summer season. Officials in Santa Clara County have been routinely screening reliable squander samples in sewage to detect stages of the coronavirus that […]

When Californians dig their ft into the sand and marvel at a seascape uncluttered by Miami superior-rises or a Jersey-like shore, some might know to thank the state’s difficult-fought record of coastal security. A unique legislation, willed into existence by the individuals of California, declared many years ago that the […]

Amigo Bob Cantisano, a ninth-technology Californian, put his life’s do the job into the state’s very soil — starting, fittingly more than enough, on the initially Earth Working day in 1970. At an celebration at San Francisco Point out he listened to a speaker decry what pesticides launched right after […]

As a result of four governors, two Obama terms and the Trump administration, Mary Nichols has led the demand to thoroughly clean up California’s smog and fight climate adjust. In the approach, she has earned herself a reputation as a single of the most influential environmental regulators in the state. […]

Parts of critical and extreme drought expanded in Southern California, an place that has been given significantly less than 25% of its usual rainfall all through the last three months, the U.S. Drought Check described Thursday. That is not most likely to alter in the coming week, as gusty Santa […]

When COVID-19 blew a hole in California’s spending plans last spring, one of the things state budget-cutters took an axe to was wildfire prevention. A $100-million pilot project to outfit older homes with fire-resistant materials was dropped. Another $165 million earmarked for community protection and wildland fuel-reduction fell to less […]

The solitary-engine Cessna was buzzing 1,000 ft above a Northern California burn off scar as UC Berkeley scientist Scott Stephens shifted excitedly in his seat and peered out the window for a improved see. Down beneath, significant machinery kicked up clouds of dust as commercial loggers tried to salvage whatsoever […]

Yrs following pledging to recuperate cleanup expenses from these liable for spreading direct air pollution about hundreds of residences in southeast Los Angeles County, California regulators have lastly filed match from several firms related to the closed Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. The action notably excludes Exide, which […]

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Deb Haaland, the freshman consultant from New Mexico, to lead the Inside Division, building history by picking the initially Indigenous American to oversee the company that manages hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in accordance to a […]