Monterey County Environment Articles

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Air Resources Board are boasting about California's shift to zero-emission vehicles but the reality of making it happen is daunting.

Saving water is more important than ever in California, due to the region’s worst drought conditions in 1,200 years. Here are some steps you can take to help.

California can increase water savings in urban and suburban areas by 30 to 48 percent using nothing but existing technology, a new report from the Pacific Institute says.

Gas prices are going up. But America has long paid too little for gasoline, along with a low gas tax rate. Is it time for all of that to change?

California’s outdated water rights laws have failed to account for the effects of climate change, says a new expert report, which makes some strong recommendations.

In July 2017, history was made in Marina when the California Coastal Commission unanimously approved a consent order with Cemex, a multinational building materials conglomerate based in Mexico, to shut down its sand mine on the northern coast of Marina…

Thousands of miles of railroad track, including some in Santa Cruz County, now sit idle. The fate of those largely abandoned tracks has become a burning controversy.

Elkhorn Slough, the federally protected estuary in Moss Landing, is estimated to have already lost more than 70 percent of its salt marshes – its dominating natural feature. A new study led by a UC Santa Barbara researcher and the…

It’s often said humans have spent more time learning about outer space than the Earth’s own oceans. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, more than 80 percent…

The climate change era has created a whole new set of terms for a wide variety of storms and other weather phenomena. Here are some of the most important.

The presence of wilderness areas in Monterey County complicates the region’s ability to benefit from new federal legislation written by the county’s representative in Washington, Congressman Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley.

California has a new law to ban leaf blowers, which both annoy neighbors and pollute the air. Here’s why the law might not do enough, explained.

CENTRAL COAST — Monterey Bay Air Resources District (MBARD) has started announcing wintertime Spare the Air alerts for Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties. MBARD will send out notifications by 3 p.m. on days when conditions warrant a Spare …

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Sustainability Program will host its first community workshop Tuesday evening as part of its Community Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CCAAP) stakeholder engagement efforts. The Nov. 16 virtual workshop, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., is …

A diverse set of characters—researchers, scientists, academics, conservationists—gathered in the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley on Nov. 7 to share their expertise during a prescribed burn.

The pesky mosquito can be deadly as well as annoying. Here’s how local governments in California have been waging war on mosquitoes for more than a century.