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How Fog Nets Are Making Water Abundant in Arid Africa – And May Be Useful in California
During the Moroccan desert summertime drought, fog nets are being used to provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in remote mountain...
California Erects Solar Panels Over Canal to Save Huge Supply of Water From Evaporation
Could covering California's irrigation canals save it from the current drought? Some scientists and engineers think so, and they also believe it could meet...
How Peru’s Andean Condors Saved the California Condor from Extinction
This article is written by Enrique Ortiz and has been reprinted with permission from Mongabay.
A few years ago, alone on the top of a...
Watch This Massive Ocean Sunfish Swim With Paddle Boarders Off the California Coast
When one sees a dorsal fin out on the water, only the calm and the eagle-eyed don't immediately think "shark." So it was with...
Deaf Football Team Goes 12-0 On Its Way to California State Championship
A varsity football team in California is impressing the state's athletic world, as the limited 23-player roster has gone undefeated 12-0 though all 23...
Virgin Births Have Been Documented in Rare Bird Population – The Endangered California Condor
The temptation to quote Jurassic Park must have been irresistible for conservation scientists at a San Diego Zoo breeding program for critically-endangered California condors,...
Substantially More Monarch Butterflies Have Arrived in California to Overwinter Bringing Hope For Species
Migratory western monarchs are showing up at their overwintering sites in coastal California in far greater numbers—a sign of hope for the struggling population.
These...
New Jersey Brothers Walk to California and Raise $70,000 for Restaurant Workers Like Them
Seeking to raise money for restaurant workers stuck at home during COVID, two bartending brothers decided to make like Bilbo Baggins and walk 3,200...
California Vineyards That Once Used Only Toxic Chemicals to Protect Vines Now Use Nesting Owls
Napa Valley vintners are increasingly turning towards winged-laborers for their pest control, and away from super toxic pesticides that poison everything, including their wine.
Barn...
California Returns Prime Beachfront to Black Heirs After Land Was Taken in 1924 From L.A. Couple
Nearly a century after their beach resort was wrongfully taken from two Black business owners, Willa and Charles Bruce, the California governor signed legislation...
PG&E Says It Will Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines to Reduce California Fire Risk
To help prevent sparking California wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced a major new initiative to bury 10,000 miles of power lines...
Astounding Fossil Discovery in California After Man Looks Closely at Petrified Tree And Finds Bones of Great Beasts
One of the biggest California fossil discoveries ever made has been found to include the remains of ancient mastodon, fish, and other mammals.
Encased amid...
Solar-Rich California Hits 95% Renewable Energy On a Recent Day Across 80 Percent of the State
For approximately four seconds on April 29, California got 95% of its power from renewable energy—with the Golden State using about 90% renewables in...
In 24 Years California Has Cut Toxic Air Pollution By 78%, Resulting in 82% Fewer Attributable Deaths
California's air pollution control standards have drastically dropped the amount of diesel particulate matter in the air, and cardiopulmonary deaths attributable to air quality.
Scientists...
Endangered Condors to Return to Northern California Skies After Nearly a Century
For the first time in 100 years, the endangered California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest.
Once on the brink of extinction, this iconic species has...
This is the Surprising Outcome When a California City Gave Struggling Folks Free Money for a Year
In an encouraging flip of the narrative, an experiment demonstrated that basic income recipients in a California city displayed intelligence and ambition, not lethargy.
The...
Porpoises Rebound in a Big Way Following California Ban on Indiscriminate Fishing Nets
After decades of use, ‘gillnets’ and the fishing strategies that employed them have been banned by California law—and that has provided a boon for...
Cat Was Thought to be a Goner in California Mudslides. 3 Years Later, the ‘Miracle Cat’ Showed Up Again
We don’t know whether or not cats truly have nine lives, but the tale of a California calico named Patches is something straight of...
This Non-Profit is Hard at Work Designing New Forests to Cure California’s Wildfire Curse
After recent devastating fires in California, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is teaming up with a specialist non-profit forest management organization to re-engineer...
5-Year-old Sends Baby Yoda Mascot to Keep California Firefighters Company
In "The Mandalorian," Baby Yoda (a.k.a “the Child”) has a habit of popping up in places where grown men fear to tread and facing...