From Los Angeles Times...
As Salmon Are Released Into the Klamath River, Tribal Leaders See a 'Symbol of Hope'
04/20/2024California has released 500,000 salmon into the Klamath River. As dams are removed, the fish will be some of the first to return to a free-flowing river.
From CalMatters...
A Plan to Change Your Utility Rates Is Dividing California Environmentalists. Here’s Why
04/18/2024The California Public Utilities Commission will consider on May 9 a new proposal that would change how Californians pay for electricity.
Meet the hippie intellectual who changed the world with the first published photograph of our entire planet.
California communities are focusing resources in response to the effects of climate change and other challenges.
A Tesla lobbyist, an LA-based environmental group, and Gov. Jerry Brown brought a rule minted in Sacramento to Beijing, and helped launch China’s EV industry.
Heat pumps, an energy-efficient way to both heat and cool homes, are a necessary element of California's climate goal of net zero carbon emissions. Here's what they are, how they work, and how to get one.
There is no scientific explanation for the conditions that make an eclipse inevitable. It’s a coincidence. Or a miracle.
On Hilltromper, a conversation with Felicia Van Stolk of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History about her Garden Learning Center.
After being reduced to three or four nesting pairs in all of California in 1944, Sandhill Cranes have come back from the brink and are returning to Lake Tahoe.
Beavers create unburned islands where plants and animals can shelter from megafires, research has confirmed. A movement is afoot to reintroduce the rodents to the state's waterways.
Over at Hilltromper, “The Nature-worshiping, Fun-Loving Adventure Guide” that serves the South Bay Area, Santa Cruz County, and anyone who visits these beautiful places, our friend Mike Kahn has just launched a new product he named BloomTracker—“an online resource that …