While Redwood City has been a water-saving leader in Silicon Valley, it has strained to find even more places to cut water use, after the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission recommended an additional 10 percent cut.
It might sound counterintuitive: doing something seemingly good is causing something bad? Turns out, the high salinity of recycled water is having a deadly effect on redwood trees in the Bay Area.
The Asian Citrus Psyllid is smaller than a chocolate sprinkle but its impact is large: the insects are the agent that spreads an infection that kills citrus trees.
Three seemingly unassociated organizations have announced a partnership they say will help consumers save money and cut back on carbon emissions, while also supporting an environmental advocacy group.
Farms don’t survive for generations in California without backup plans. That’s why, in the midst of an exceptional drought, some farmers have prepared for the worst.
The world has enough food today. But if climate change and population growth continue the way experts think they will, our food supply may not last beyond the next couple of decades.
California’s drought has led some Palo Alto residents to press for a ban on the dumping of millions of gallons of groundwater into storm drains, a result of some basement construction.
Gwen Minor climbed a Redwood City tree about to be cut down — and refused to come down for the next eleven hours — back in September. Are Americans’ attitudes toward trees changing? Hear from Minor.
In the midst of one of the worst droughts in memory, key details about Proposition 1 — the California Water Bond — still remain unclear as Election Day nears.
An adaptation of an award-winning print article that tells the story of how major corporate interests turned a blind eye to health risks from leaded gasoline from the 1920s through the 1980s.
Climate change is already happening, and though local governments in the Bay Area have begun to recognize extreme weather events, sea level rise, prolonged heat waves and drought, are they doing enough?
In an expensive region, farmers and ranchers are looking to partnerships to keep their operations alive, and old grievances are slowly fading as new pressures bring together those who work the land and those who would seek to protect it.
