VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KTLA) – Six people are in custody and a seventh is wanted by authorities after California Fish and Wildlife game wardens busted a suspected poaching ring that spanned several years and involved the cooperation of a local food market. They call themselves the E-Bike Crew, a group of six men believed to …
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Dec 8 (Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy shut down its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a Kansas creek, making it one of the largest oil spills crude in the United States for almost a decade. The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas …
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OPINION AND COMMENT Editorials and other opinion content provide insights into issues important to our community and are independent of the work of our newsroom reporters. Desalination is used all over the world, from Israel to Australia. Here, project engineer Mike Watts watches salt water flow through the pre-treatment hall at Kurnell’s desalination plant in …
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Farms are shrinking in California, and economists and farmers warn the economic and environmental consequences could be severe In the early hours of a cold fall morning, thousands of birds sat in the puddles of empty rice paddies just outside the Sacramento Valley. In many of these fields this year not a single bird can …
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Californians should prepare for another year of brown lawns, strict water restrictions and heightened calls for conservation, as state water managers warned on Thursday that dramatically reduced allocations are at hand. likely again in 2023. The Department of Water Resources announced an initial allocation of just 5% of supplies requested by the State Water Project …
Redwood forests like this one in California can store large amounts of carbon, but not if cut down. Shane Coffield Many companies promising “net zero” emissions to protect the climate rely on large tracts of forests and so-called carbon offsets to achieve this goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear to balance a company’s carbon emissions: …
A huge marine mammal once roamed the California coast, floating on the surface of the ocean and grazing on nothing but plants. It weighed twice as much as a hippopotamus and had such rough, scaly skin that it was compared to the bark of a tree. The extinct sea beast, called Steller’s sea cow, has …
But investigators are still struggling to track suspicious shipments, said Ioana Cotutiu, a project coordinator at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime who works on the illegal waste trade. “Very often there are a lot of middlemen and we lose track of the waste,” she said in a webinar this year. “Once it …
The city of California asked where their recycling was going. The answer was not pretty. Read More »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government announced Monday that it will spend $250 million over four years on cleanup and environmental restoration work around a dried-up Southern California lake fed by the depleted Colorado River. The future of the Salton Sea, and who is financially responsible for it, has been a key question in …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government announced Monday that it will spend $250 million over four years on cleanup and environmental restoration work around a dried-up Southern California lake fed by the depleted Colorado River. The future of the Salton Seaand who is financially responsible for it, has been a key question in discussions …
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