agriculture

Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast

Photo: Postdoctoral student Sebastian Krause, left, works with Valentine to retrieve a tube of sediment collected from the seafloor where…

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Shift To Green Energy Future is Renewing Plantation-Era Water Wars on Kauai

A proposed hydro project — the first of its kind in the world — could supply up to a quarter…

2 years ago

California’s Central Valley was a landscape of lakes and marshes…

Art: An artist's 19th century depiction of Tulare Lake, now vanished. (Tulare County Library) …then we sucked it dry. Fly…

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California Blueprint for Ag Growth, Rooted in Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

The atmospheric rivers that flowed over California in January dumped about a foot of rain — equal to an entire…

2 years ago

Seaweed farms & historic deal to protect the seas

Photo: Julie Robinson is the director of the Nature Conservancy’s Belize Program in Punta Gorda, Belize. Credit: Meridith Kohut In…

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