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Spotlight: Health and Welfare, Environment

Volatile weather creates dramatic changes for California farmers

September 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
On the front lines of climate change, the state’s agriculture industry faces a new landscape with less water, warmer winters, unexpected rain and rising salinity. + read more
Daily Report: Environment

Study: Climate change would lead to increased fire activity

June 27, 2012, 5:40 AM
Climate change is likely to alter fire patterns around the world, including a potential increase in the number of fires for much of California in the next 30 years, according to a new study led by UC Berkeley researchers.  The study, published in Ecosphere, modeled projected... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

As storms hammer West Coast, state's response goes live

December 22, 2010, 6:13 PM
Check out this live cam of California's emergency operations center in Sacramento. The stream becomes available online when major disasters strike and the state needs to keep residents informed. Pounding rain in southern California is causing streets to flood, hillsides to give way and mud to... + read more
Daily Report: Environment

Warmest year on record

December 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
NASA scientists say the most recent meteorological year, which ran from December 2009 through November 2010, was the warmest in 131 years of of record keeping. The world’s average temperature in 2010 was 14.65 degrees Celsius, or 58.57 degrees Fahrenheit. In 2005, the former front-runner... + read more
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