Scientists Say Rising Seas Will Break Flooding Records
The federal government is warning Americans to brace for a "floodier" future.
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The federal government is warning Americans to brace for a "floodier" future.
San Mateo and Santa Clara County officials are inspecting areas in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park after two male peach fruit flies native to southern Asia were found locally.
California lawmakers are rushing to pass bills aimed at stabilizing the state's electric utilities and putting a renewed focus on a safety in the face of devastating wildfires caused by utility equipment.
The rodents were introduced to the island nearly 200 years ago and have since "led to long-term ecological damage," according to a report.
PG&E has begun daily aerial fire and smoke detection patrols across the thousands of miles of its service area, the utility company said Tuesday.
Bay Area-based electric car company Tesla overcame logistics problems to set a quarterly record for deliveries from April through June.
A Facebook spokesperson said there were no dangerous substances found after a hazmat situation at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park prompted evacuations.
Environmentalists on a mission to clean up the ocean of plastic pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Four Bay Area beaches ranked among the most polluted in California, while Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz earned a spot as one of the least polluted beaches in the state, according to the annual report released this week by the environmental advocacy nonprofit Heal the Bay.
The US Fish and Wildlife Department is floating a controversial plan to dump one and a half tons of poison pellets on the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge to get rid of an infestation of mice.
Ocean Voyages Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Sausalito, has just announced it has successfully removed more than 40 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
A wildfire burning east of Mount Hamilton in Stanislaus County has exploded in size overnight, scorching 1,000 acres as of Wednesday morning.
Gas prices in San Francisco have fallen nearly five cents per gallon in the past week, continuing a downward trend over the last several weeks.
A conservation group at Lake Tahoe along and several water suppliers plan to start distributing 250 cigarette butt collection canisters around the lake this summer.
At least 81 gray whale corpses have washed ashore in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska since Jan. 1 and scientists have an urgent request for coastal residents: Lend us your private beaches so they can rot in peace.
