Squeeze a Sonoran Desert toad between your palms and a milky substance will ooze from its glands. Dried, then smoked, the juice is known to cause auditory and visual hallucinations. But poachers, in search of these transcendental toads, have descended into the night on the desert landscape, leading many to worry that the toad will go regionally […]
PALO ALTO – Students and community members urged the Palo Alto City Council to educate the public about the health risks of gas stoves. “We’re feeding chemicals into people’s homes that injure kids’ lungs. We need to educate the public who don’t know this to let them have a choice,” chemical engineer and resident Sven Thesen said at the council
PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto City Council moved to replace existing synthetic turf at El Camino Park with cork turf at its Jan. 12 meeting, rejecting the recommendations of county health authorities who recommended that the city install grass. In a presentation to the council, Division Manager of Open Space, Parks and Golf Sarah
Palo Alto City Council votes yes on synthetic turf at El Camino Field Read More »
On Oct. 4, 2025 community leaders and organizations gathered to host the city’s second annual climate resilience fair. The event buzzed as attendees walked from booth to booth, discussing current climate and community health threats, solutions and successes. Just a half mile away, a former hazardous waste processing facility, The BayRow Holding LLC site, colloquially
Groundwater Rise, A Looming Threat in East Palo Alto Read More »
The sunsetting of a $7,500 Biden-era electric vehicle incentive drove a month of record sales this September, but as buyers and sellers prepare for an uncertain economic landscape, thousands of dollars in rebates and incentives still remain. The tax incentive, which expired at midnight on Sept. 30, allowed buyers to receive up to $7,500 towards
On May 2, despite months of advocacy from residents and local and state representatives, Contra Costa County received word that the EPA had formally terminated a $19 million Community Change Grant that was awarded to North Richmond and the neighboring City of Richmond in January.
North Richmond hit hard by federal grant cancellation Read More »
Many understand the health and climate risks of meat consumption. So why aren’t reduced-meat diets the norm?
Beyond Meatless Mondays: What Climate-Conscious Eating Needs to Take Off Read More »
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, industrial dairies are releasing harmful pollutants with little oversight. Lacking air monitors and enforcement, nearby farmworker families face serious health risks. Will regulators look the other way?
What’s in the Air? Pixley Residents Know, but the State Doesn’t Want to See Read More »
As climate change and resource scarcity force increasing human-wildlife contact, debate over natural predator management heats up in California.
Trading coyotes for cattle: Californians struggle to coexist with native predators Read More »
Trump wants to expand logging on National Forest lands, which may be at odds with the simultaneous vision for wildfire resilience depending on how the U.S. Forest Service meets new timber targets.
The USFS was ordered to chop. Will they do it sustainably? Read More »
Friction between regulatory policy and California aquaculture leaves the future of Point Reyes oyster farmers in doubt.
Throwing the Oysters Out with the Bathwater Read More »
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology hosts local community to learn more about physics in biennial science festival.
Who said science isn’t for the weekend? Read More »
