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California’s Polluted Communities Could Miss Out on Billions Under Flawed System

02/22/2024
The state’s environmental tool skews which communities are designated as disadvantaged, researchers say. Some immigrant neighborhoods could be left out, while other groups are overrepresented.

From SF Gate...

Environment Animals Sustainability

Endangered Coho Salmon Make a Major Comeback in Marin County Creek

02/22/2024
One biologist called it “the highest single-day count that we have recorded.”

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Water

After Heavy Storms, Death Valley Is Now Open to Kayakers

02/20/2024
A temporary lake in Death Valley National Park doubled after recent rains and is now deep enough to launch a kayak. Prior to August, ghostly Lake Manly hadn’t appeared in 19 years.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Animals

Opinion: Is the Restoration of California’s Cutest Keystone Species Worth It?

02/16/2024
Since the 1960s, a remnant population of sea otters has revived Monterey Bay. But they can’t migrate north throughout their historic range without human help.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Sustainability

King Tides Are Arriving in California. Here’s What They Show About Rising Seas

02/09/2024
What are king tides and will they get worse with climate change?

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Water

California’s Wild Weather Year Could Get Even Weirder

02/09/2024
There’s a 55% chance La Niña could develop between June and August, and a 77% chance it could develop between September and November, NOAA said.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Water Sustainability

How California’s Storms Are Projected to Become More Extreme With Climate Change

02/08/2024
Human-caused climate is projected to bring wetter, more intense storms. Scientists explain what these shifts mean for California and the West.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Water

Before-After Images Show the Scale of Flooding Across SoCal

02/07/2024
Public satellites haven’t yet flown over the areas hit by the storm. These images are “simulating what the satellites would have seen.”

From Los Angeles Times...

Public Safety Environment Water Resilience

The Terrifying Forces That Created a California Monster Storm

02/05/2024
The storm fed off of unusually warm waters as it grew. It also reached “bomb cyclone” status as it neared California.

From Daily Democrat...

Public Safety Environment

Some Experts Are Proposing a Category 6 Storm Rating

02/05/2024
A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6.

From SF Gate...

Environment Water

Scientists Debunk California Biblical-Storm Hysteria Swirling on Internet

01/29/2024
What is an ARkStorm and why is everyone talking about it on social media right now?

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Sustainability

A Fire Burning Inside an L.A. County Landfill is Raising Alarms Over Toxic Air

01/29/2024
As an underground fire burns deep within Chiquita Canyon Landfill, air regulators are raising alarms over the possible spread of toxic vapors.

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Silicon Valley Billionaires vs. Bay Area’s Housing Crisis?

01/28/2024
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In NYT’s “The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted,” we meet a man who wants to build a city in the middle of nowhere, and folks who are slowing him down. For now.

From CapPublicRadio...

Environment Water Sustainability

‘Hot Droughts’ Are Becoming More Common in the Arid West, New Study Finds

01/28/2024
Take a period of limited rainfall. Add heat. And you have what scientists call a “hot drought”—dry conditions made more intense by the evaporative power of hotter temperatures.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Health Sustainability

Sludge Compost Is an Increasing Source of Microplastics, Researchers Say

01/18/2024
California winds spread microplastics from natural fertilizers at higher concentrations than previously known, a team of UCLA researchers has found.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Health

Harmful Chemicals in Plastics cost U.S. Healthcare $250 Billion a Year

01/17/2024
The chemicals added to plastics are likely contributing more than $250 billion to annual healthcare costs in the United States, researchers say.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Animals

Were California’s Grizzlies Really Ravenous Meat Eaters?

01/11/2024
California’s perception of the grizzly bear is wrong, according to new research. The grizzly bear was, for the most part, a vegetarian.

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Business, Economy & Jobs Environment Water Agriculture, Food & Gardening Government

California’s New Water-Saving Regs Lack 'Compelling Justifications'

01/05/2024
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Benefits of the state's new, strict water conservation rules may not outweigh the costs, analysts say.

From SFGate...

Public Safety Environment Transportation

Snow Shortage Followed by Potential Whiteout in Sierras

01/05/2024
Heavy snow is projected in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Previously, warmer storms had been bringing precipitation mainly to higher elevations in the Sierras.

From Los Angeles Times...

Public Safety Environment Water

WWII-Era Dump Site Found Off LA Coast

01/05/2024
Munition boxes, depth charges and smoke floats have been found 3,000 feet underwater off the coast of Los Angeles. More than 100 square miles of ocean might be contaminated.

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