People turned to gardening for stress relief, food access during pandemic, new survey says
Do we need to revise our definition of drought?
Elephant seals’ map sense tells them when to head ‘home’
A slow-motion section of the San Andreas Fault may not be so harmless after all
Last year’s drought cost the ag industry more than $1 billion, thousands of jobs, new analysis shows
Just what is a resilient forest, anyway?
Can the Salton Sea geothermal field prevent the coming lithium shortage?
Megadrought in southwestern North America is region’s driest in at least 1,200 years
The drought that has enveloped southwestern North America for the past 22 years is the region’s driest “megadrought” — defined as a drought lasting two decades or longer — since at least the year 800, according to a new UCLA-led study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
UC’s greenhouse gas emissions are now at 1990 levels — and declining
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes 5-year funding compact with the University of California
The strange, tumultuous life of solar power at the White House
Press conferences at the White House tend to occur in predictable locations: The Briefing Room, the Rose Garden, the South Lawn. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter chose a loftier venue: the roof. He didn’t do it for the view over Washington, D.C.; he wanted to show off a brand-new array of 32 solar panels.
The California model: Make polluters pay
Even when climate change is a top priority for lawmakers, progress is challenging. It often comes down to money: We have plenty of expensive problems right now, so expensive problems down the road take a backseat.