West Coast leaders sign climate-change agreement in San Francisco
Elizabeth Cook reports on Governor Newsom convening West Coast leaders for climate-change summit (10-6-2022)
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Elizabeth Cook reports on Governor Newsom convening West Coast leaders for climate-change summit (10-6-2022)
In a recent report the U.S. Navy described climate change as one of the most destabilizing forces of our time. It has now set a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Lauren Toms reports.
While most people picture aircraft carriers and destroyers when they think of the Navy, Meredith Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Energy, Installations and Environment, sees a major opportunity to combat climate change.
Hundreds of young people marched Friday morning in downtown Oakland to the beat of drums to say no to coal in the city and no to climate change.
Elizabeth Cook reports on how increasing temperatures could end California's status as one of the nation's top tomato producers (9-21-2022
This past weekend, the Bay Area got hit with unseasonable rains just a week after record-breaking heat, weather extremes that created all kinds of problems for farmers in the Central Valley.
Wildfire prevention, air quality, electric cars are all big issues in California and the subject of Proposition 30, a ballot measure drawing controversy. John Ramos reports. (9/19/22)
In Napa Valley, grape growers are waiting for the heat wave to end to begin harvesting their crops for this year's vintage. But one grower has developed a method of planting that may offer hope to a region that is increasingly vulnerable to climate change.
A Rutherford winery is seeing the effects of climate change on Napa valley. John Ramos talks to the owner of Neal Family Vineyards.
Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state's plan to ban sales of new fuel-powered cars by 2035.
Reporters from CBS LA, San Francisco and Sacramento team up to bring you a new hourlong special focusing on the climate crisis and a look at some solutions.
A special report on California's changing climate and the ongoing drought by CBS stations across the Golden State. (9-1-22)
From 1987-1992, California was hit with a megadrought, and San Diego, which was at the end of the fresh water pipeline, was in deep trouble.
Tougher clean energy goals, a ban on new oil and gas wells near homes and schools, and establishing guidelines for capturing carbon and storing it underground are among the climate proposals California Democrats advanced in the final days of the legislative session.
A new study reveals a dire prediction about the state of our planet over the next 80 years. Scientists are warning "zombie ice" could have a devastating impact on sea levels around the world. CBS News' Ian Lee reports from London.
California will be the first state in the nation to install solar panel canopies over canals to combat drought and climate change.
Executive Director of the Energy Institute at Berkeley Haas Andrew Campbell talks about California's plan to end new gas car sales by 2035 (8-25-2022)
The urban heat island effect can make the country's most populated cities 20ºF warmer than nearby areas. Climate change will only make it more suffocating.
Wilson Walker reports on the results of a new study on the dangers of extreme heat waves as climate change conditions worsen (8-15-2022)
A new study shows climate change has already doubled the chances of a disastrous flood happening in California in the next four decades beyond what anyone now alive has experienced.
Jared Blumenfeld, California's top environmental regulator and a key climate adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom, will leave the administration at the end of the month, Newsom announced Friday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to speed up the state's transition to non-carbon electricity sources and accelerate its timeline for lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Bay Area activists plan to gather Saturday in Richmond for a march and actions commemorating the 10-year anniversary of an explosion and fire that tore through the Chevron Richmond refinery.
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks exclusively with CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy about his plan to spend tens of billions of dollars of the state's surplus to battle climate change. (7-28-22)
A new study shows a population boom for young great white sharks in the Monterey Bay, one that researchers are attributing to climate change.
