Panel explores climate impact on obtaining homeowners insurance
As climate risk increases with more severe weather disasters, insurance providers are raising their premium rates or withdrawing from climate-vulnerable regions entirely.
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As climate risk increases with more severe weather disasters, insurance providers are raising their premium rates or withdrawing from climate-vulnerable regions entirely.
In order to combat the impacts of sea level rise, the Port of San Francisco and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are planning on raising the iconic, historic Ferry Building by as much as seven feet.
A series of new studies on climate change is making clear what scientists and researchers have long been warning about the state of our planet.
A series of new studies on climate change is making clear what scientists and researchers have long been warning about the state of our planet. Elizabeth Cook and Molly McCrea report (6-6-24) Website: http://kpix.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/KPIXtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/KPIXtv
Hydro-climatologist Dr. Peter Gleick talks about the increasing impacts of higher temperatures on California.
"Our planet is trying to tell us something. But we don't seem to be listening," the U.N.'s secretary-general said after May marked another month of back-to-back global heat records.
Ryan Yamamoto reports on the Alameda City Council voting to end a University of Washington climate experiment being held on the USS Hornet.
An experiment in Alameda involving spraying sea salt particles into the air to determine the feasibility of mitigating global warming that was halted over safety concerns will not be resumed after a vote by the City Council.
Bay Area high school students are taking leadership roles in addressing climate change and cultivating a better future, thanks to a one-of-a-kind program in California.
Researchers climbed the world's largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week.
A Bay Area entrepreneur's company eliminates air pollution from ships that must run their engines while they're in port.
California Governor Gavin Newsom called out former President Donald Trump at the Vatican on Thursday, accusing him of "open corruption" at a Vatican conference on climate change.
Researchers conducting an experiment in Alameda to determine the feasibility of mitigating global warming by spraying sea salt particles into the air are looking at their next steps after the city halted the experiment.
Some people think they're spooky and sinister, but bats play a critical role in maintaining California's ecosystem as well as the state's valuable agriculture industry. Now climate change is threatening their populations.
Bats play a critical role in maintaining California's ecosystem as well as the state's valuable agriculture industry. Anne Makovec reports. (5-2-24) Website: http://kpix.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/KPIXtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/KPIXtv
A San Francisco recycling startup company has created an AI-powered robot to streamline the recycling process, and it's now being used in other plants across the country.
Last summer, hundreds of millions of people were faced with triple-digit temperatures across the U.S. This year, it could happen again.
The Goldman Environmental Prize – also known as the Green Nobel Awards - was held early Monday evening at the War Memorial Opera in San Francisco.
Last year's snow deluge in California --, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought -- was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, according to a new scientific study.
Bay Area scientists are using cutting-edge technology to better understand the decline in bird populations while finding ways to help species that are challenged.
Scientists are using a range of tools to protect the endangered wildlife that could disappear in coming decades.
Researchers want to make the world a better place and they believe the world's tropical forests are a good place to start. David Schechter reports. (4-19-24)
A disappearing lizard population in the mountains of Arizona shows how climate change is fast-tracking the rate of extinction.
Starbucks unveiled the new cups ahead of Earth Day and as a new report warns plastic production emissions are even greater than those from aviation.
Hurricane Maria nearly wiped out an endangered parrot in Puerto Rico, highlighting the grave threat climate change-fueled storms pose to endangered species.
