San Diego enhancing city’s fight against climate change after critical audit
San Diego’s efforts to fight climate change will shift from a set of ambitious goals to a more comprehensive and detailed blueprint in response to...
It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?
In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all. It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of...
How much water goes into oil fracking in drought-stricken California?
When California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to ban hydraulic fracturing, a highly controversial method of oil and gas production more widely known as fracking,...
Editorial: Wildfires shouldn’t be used to force high-density housing
A new University of California Berkeley Center for Community Innovation study raises important questions about California’s wildfire policies, but its solutions would be disastrous. The...
This giant ‘inland ocean’ is Southern California’s last defense against drought
Mechanical engineer Brent Yamasaki set out amid the recent blistering heat wave to take stock of the giant dams, pumps and pipes that support Diamond...
A drought meets its match
Mechanical engineer Brent Yamasaki set out amid the recent blistering heat wave to take stock of the giant dams, pumps and pipes that support Diamond...
Big Sur fire: hundreds of firefighters battle blaze raging in California
Firefighters are battling to contain a wildfire that erupted near Big Sur last week, as the flames continue to engulf the dry California landscape and...
‘If You Move Out Here, You Make a Deal With Nature’: Life in a Fire-Prone Canyon
The Palisades Fire that forced hundreds to evacuate last month on the outskirts of Los Angeles never got close to James Grasso’s house. But he...