California Drought Leads To Neighborhood Turf Battles
Strict neighborhood rules requiring green lawns are being challenged as California's drought prompts homeowners to embrace alternate landscaping.
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Strict neighborhood rules requiring green lawns are being challenged as California's drought prompts homeowners to embrace alternate landscaping.
Rains since last fall have brought Colorado out of a drought and returned the state to a condition that the National Weather Service says it hasn't seen since August 2009.
The public will soon get a chance to weigh in on what, until now, has been a hush-hush plan to bring millions of tons of coal into the Bay Area.
The Monterey County Environmental Health Bureau closed a centrally located beach Thursday morning due to a sewage spill from a Cannery Row restaurant.
Marine biologists and business school students at Oregon State University believe they may have created the next big super-food trend: seawood that's healthier than kale and tastes like bacon when cooked.
In their annual, detailed physical of Earth's climate, scientists say the world is in increasingly hot and rising water.
California officials are ordering an end to traditional grassy lawns for new homes and businesses as they continue targeting ornamental landscapes as a waste of water.
California state beaches and parks are turning off the taps starting Wednesday.
Construction sites use water to control dust, but then Terry Devore of Newark saw where the water was coming from.
Swimmers are being warned to stay out of the water at Monterey Municipal Beach after tests found high levels of bacteria, county health officials said Tuesday.
Scientists say Californians may be in for one of the wettest winters in years due to a powerful El Nino event, but areas scorched by wildfires will be especially vulnerable to mudslides and flooding.
Officials documented 115 humpback, blue and fin whales during a one-hour survey last weekend near the Farallon Islands.
Bay Area armchair geologists can watch Mexico's most dangerous volcano from the safety of their homes via webcam. Colima Volcano has been producing "explosions, glowing avalanches and pyroclastic flows."
A judge ruled Friday that California regulators violated some farmers' rights by telling them to stop diverting from rivers and streams, but the state says it can still punish those who illegally take water during the drought.
The outdoor showers at beaches across drought-stricken California will be shut off to save water, so surfers and sunbathers will have to get creative this summer when it comes time to shake off the sand.
