Helicopter Locates Body Of Missing Hiker After 5-Day Search
The body of a missing hiker was found on a Northern California mountain by a helicopter after a five-day search.
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The body of a missing hiker was found on a Northern California mountain by a helicopter after a five-day search.
Nearly 15,000 acres have burned in a fast-moving wildfire in Monterey County south of Carmel-by-the-Sea that sparked late last week and has destroyed nearly two dozen buildings, Cal Fire officials said.
Turtle Rangers are planting high-tech decoy eggs to catch poachers trading in endangered sea turtle eggs.
A grass and brush fire Sunday evening in unincorporated Contra Costa County near Hercules has burned about 45 acres and is 50 percent contained, a Cal Fire Battalion Chief said.
Siberian tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing mauled a woman to death and wounded another when they stepped out of their car in an enclosure, a Chinese state-run newspaper said.
If the wolverine is the same animal first spotted in 2008, "Buddy" is estimated to be at least 9 years old.
Oyster-recovery efforts in SF Bay and elsewhere around the country have a unified goal: showing that oysters can be successfully restored in the wild.
An employee at San Jose's Alviso wastewater treatment plant accidentally released 952,000 gallons of partially treated sewage into San Francisco Bay on Wednesday.
Two groups of mosquitoes in separate Contra Costa County communities tested positive for West Nile virus.
Photographers in Southern California sprang into action when they saw a brush fire.
A team of scientists that included a UC Berkeley phycisist have come up empty-handed in their latest effort to find elusive dark matter, the plentiful stuff that helps galaxies like ours form.
It's a busy time of year for the Coast Guard as the weather heats up and people head for the water, and the agency is encouraging beach goers and boaters to use "caution and common sense."
A cadre of modern day Johnny Appleseeds who believe California's giant sequoias and coastal redwoods are blessed with some of the heartiest genetics of any trees on Earth - and that propagating them will help reverse climate change, at least in a small way.
More than a fifth of California's recycling redemption centers have closed in the last year, stripping consumers of easy access to recycling and limiting their ability to collect the deposits they made when purchasing bottles and cans.
The latest study by climate scientists finds even though El Nino is gone ocean temperatures are still warmer than usual with continuing coastal sea rise worldwide.
