Santa Cruz County Local News: Environment

A new site has appeared online attempting to explain plans for massive Solano County land development.

Four hydroelectric dams totaling 100,000 tons of concrete will be destroyed by the end of 2024.

Previously anonymous investment group has gobbled up $1 billion worth of land.

At 118 years old, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History is still evolving.

California produces millions of tons of hazardous waste per year, but has only 72 disposal sites

Compared to 1939, California has better systems to respond to floods and tropical storms

Court ruling that “loud student parties” are pollution stops a second housing development.

Water Resources Control Board decides the greenhouse gas-emitting plants are necessary.

A conversation with Stacy Caldwell, CEO of Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation

Allegation claims agency failed to properly protect water quality in Delta and Bay areas

Extensive new purification standards could turn wastewater into “the cleanest drinking water around.”

Best-selling author Susan Casey, the preeminent chronicler of our oceans, risks it all to learn about the world’s greatest enigma.

“We can get a rocket to Mars and drive around little vehicles and send photographs back, but we do not know why we have El Niños,” says Gary Griggs, a professor of oceanography for more than 50 years.