Climate
The Iran war is driving clean energy development. It’s not enough to help the planet, yet
Countries are embracing clean power and taking steps to use less energy because of the Iran war. But it’s not yet enough to help address climate change.
On Wall Street, frustration is mounting that AI will hijack the climate debate
Some prominent bankers are asking the global finance industry not to let AI overshadow talks about reducing planet-warming pollution.
This major California river has gotten too warm for its salmon
The Sacramento River has gotten too warm for salmon eggs. Environmental advocates blame the Trump administration for taking too much water out of Shasta Lake.
California is losing its oaks. One man is planting 10,000, including in tree-scarce Altadena
For years, he’d been a classroom science teacher in suburban San Diego County. Now he hopes to meaningfully contribute to the regrowth of oaks in burned Altadena.
Newsom rejects effort to roll back CEQA exemptions for advanced manufacturing
Senate Bill 954 would have rolled back parts of last year’s controversial overhaul of CEQA that allowed for advanced manufacturing facilities to be sited in communities without environmental review.
For the first time, scientists link heavy snow to groundwater in California
Scientists are finding that snowfall is more connected to water underground than we knew. Using satellite data, they found groundwater levels actually rise during big snow years, in contrast to most years, when it continues to fall.
Clearing out the mountain basins in case El Niño brings flooding rain
L.A. County is preparing for storms and possible floods during El Niño. Crews are digging massive amounts of accumulated sediment out of the county’s dams.
Nevada’s first wastewater-to-drinking-water plant breaks ground in Reno
Officials in Nevada broke ground on a facility that will treat wastewater to make it compliant with drinking-water standards.
Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years
A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979
British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it
Activists on Canada’s Vancouver Island are once again trying to stop the logging of old-growth forests, some of the rarest and most carbon rich ecosystems on Earth