Atmospheric River: Hidden Danger Underneath Bay Area Burn Scars Heightens Landslide Risks
The approaching atmospheric river has raised alarms about the burn scars from the massive Bay Area wildfires of 2020.
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The approaching atmospheric river has raised alarms about the burn scars from the massive Bay Area wildfires of 2020.
As cleanup continues from a major wind storm, officials at Yosemite National Park said reopening would not take place until at least Saturday, as a strong winter storm fueled by an atmospheric river is set to arrive.
California regulators have approved a new set of statewide rules for wastewater discharged from wineries and some smaller operators in the North Bay are saying the new requirements could put them out of business.
Firefighters responded to a reported ammonia spill at a San Jose facility operated by food manufacturer Kellogg's on Friday evening.
Pacific Gas & Electric has chosen the Wine Country community of Calistoga to test cutting-edge wildfire prevention technology from around the world, in hopes to make their system safer.
Looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leaders in Berkeley are seeking to sharply reduce the number of gas and diesel vehicles sold in the city.
Crab season has officially started after a two month delay, with the first catch started arriving into Pier 45 in San Francisco on Wednesday night.
Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes.
An astonishing 22 separate weather and climate disasters costing over $1 billion each occurred in the U.S. in 2020. Western wildfires accounted for a total of $16.5 billion in damage.
A group of Bay Area environmental and community organizations has sued the city of Richmond, claiming last month's approval of the mixed-use Campus Bay Project violates state environmental quality standards and ignores science on rising sea levels.
President Trump has vetoed a bill that would have gradually ended the use of large-mesh drift gill nets used exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California.
A company called Plenty in South San Francisco is proving the value of low-water, controlled cultivation of leafy greens.
With rain systems again cycling through Northern California, attention is turning back to the scene of the fires that raged in August.
Three snake specimens are the only known members of a new snake genus, called Levitonius, and a new snake species (Levitonius mirus) named for Alan Leviton, a researcher at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is asking the region's residents to not burn wood during the Christmas holiday but is not issuing Spare the Air alerts that would ban it.
