Effort to promote native West Coast oyster species could help battle climate change
Elizabeth Cook reports on how an increase in the Olympia oyster population could help fight to slow climate change (10-19-2023)
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Elizabeth Cook reports on how an increase in the Olympia oyster population could help fight to slow climate change (10-19-2023)
Scientists, researchers, and volunteers are working on an Olympian quest - to restore the Olympian oyster to once-historic levels at a coastal wetland along the Monterey Bay, an effort that may help to curb the impacts of the warming climate.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is planning to make a one-day stop in Israel en route to China on a previously announced trip to discuss policies to curb global warming.
California's valuable remaining salt marshes are disappearing; climate change, with its melting glaciers and warming seas, threatens to drown the remaining coastal marshes out of existence.
After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September.
After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September. Anne Makovec and Molly McCrea report. (10-5-23)
Evangelical Christians are the group that is most skeptical of climate change, data shows, but a new generation of believers inside the church is trying to change their minds. Young activists are trying to fight climate denial among their peers and leaders. Adam Yamaguchi reports.
Earth's changing climate is not just causing increasingly punishing droughts, intense wildfires, and extreme weather, it could disrupt the world's beer supply by as much as 16%. Now, California scientists are brewing up solutions to the dilemma.
Earth's changing climate could disrupt the world's beer supply. Anne Makovec and Molly McCrea report. (9-28-23)
An endangered species of fox that has surfaced on a Central Valley college campus is providing proof that one of the biggest weapons against climate change is maintaining biodiversity of the planet.
A group of 25 state governors that make up the U.S. Climate Alliance and the Biden administration announced a pledge Thursday to quadruple the number of heat pumps in U.S. homes by 2030, from 4.7 million to 20 million.
Michael George reports on California Governor Gavin Newsom calling out oil companies at U.N. climate summit
The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren't doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that's causing it.
Extreme weather is spurring some insurers to exit states like California and Florida, while homeowners grapple with surging premiums.
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area will be receiving more than $42 million in funding to combat climate change by planting trees and creating urban spaces, among other projects.
As climate change continues to have an effect across the globe, dome-shaped buildings made of concrete could serve as a way to withstand extreme weather, including wildfires, floods and earthquakes. Janet Shamlian has more.
A Libyan official who visited Derna said "25% of the city has disappeared," and he expects the final toll to be "really, really big."
There have been 23 weather extreme events in America that cost at least $1 billion this year through August, breaking the record of 22 set in 2020.
California researchers are scrutinizing the spread of a fungus that causes debilitating Valley fever, now being exacerbated by climate change.
"Climate breakdown has begun," U.N. chief says, adding: "The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting."
A Bay Area biotech startup is fighting climate change by genetically enhancing the ability of trees to capture and store carbon dioxide.
Raging wildfires in southwestern Louisiana have forced an entire town of about 1,200 people to abandon their homes. Officials say wind patterns and intense heat are making the fires unpredictable. Nicole Sganga reports.
Twice a month, community scientists in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties -- all trained volunteers -- head out to Elkhorn Slough, a 7-mile arm of Monterey Bay to observe sea otters.
High ocean temperatures have led to devastating coral bleaching off the coast of Florida. The heat kills off the algae the coral needs to survive, which in turn impacts other marine life. Manuel Bojorquez reports.
Nearly 85% of wildfires are started by people, including from campfires, negligently discarded cigarettes and intentional acts of arson, according to the National Park Service.
