‘It gets worse every day’: why are sea lions and dolphins dying along California’s coast?

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In addition to an estimated more than 1,000 sick and dying sea lions, 110 dolphins have also been killed. Photograph: Channel…

Sustainable solutions needed to the water crisis in the West

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Editor’s note: As he traditionally does around this time every year, Brian Greenspun is turning over his Where I Stand…

Native nations and UC scientists join together in the climate fight

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$7 million grant advances Indigenous and academic partnership Indigenous land-management strategies have been largely missing from modern attempts to combat…

Did you know? Tools for tracking Lake Tahoe’s clarity were invented at the Vatican

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Last week, the current director of the Vatican Observatory paid a visit to Lake Tahoe to see the more than…

El Niño and La Niña multi-year events could become more common

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Via UCSB THE CURRENT The Pacific Ocean covers 32% of Earth’s surface area, more than all the land combined. Unsurprisingly,…

Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

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Photo: The Brandt Cattle Company feedyard in Southern California’s Imperial Valley composts dry manure in an open field, a process…

Race Underway To Glue Down The Lahaina Fire’s Toxic Ash Before Rains Wash It Into The Ocean

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Photo: There’s growing concern over the potential for rain to wash pollutants from the Lahaina fire into the ocean. (Kevin…

Digitizing Data: Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Estuary

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Photo credit: California Department of Water Resources Earlier this month, I was working my way through my morning emails and…

Drinking water of millions of Americans contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’

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Water of about 26 million is contaminated as new data offers the most robust look into exactly which communities are…

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction

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A new system will be able to clear a football field every five seconds. Photo: Tens of thousands of pounds…