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A new tool called EcoCast helps fishermen in the West Coast figure out where it's best to fish that day.
Dairy cows are sensitive to heat, so farmers cool them down with sprinklers and fans. Researchers are designing better, more efficient systems to keep cows comfortable through hot California summers.
A new law provides flexibility in terms of how the state can meet this new target for the electricity it consumes.
Taking millions of gallons of water permanently out of the Colorado River amid a prolonged drought would surely start an interstate fight.
Pollination by commercially raised bees is important to a variety of crops but none more than California almonds. In turn, beekeepers depend on them.
As California reels from another devastating fire season, environmental resource scholars explain how the state – and other fire-prone areas – can better prepare and coexist with wildfires.
With California suffering another devastating wildfire year, more people are wondering about whether and how global warming is contributing. A climate scientist explains.
Law scholars from California unpack the legal questions raised by the Trump administration's plan to roll back mileage standards and revoke California's ability to set more stringent rules.
Wildland firefighting has always been a risky job, but development in fire-prone areas is making it more dangerous by putting forest firefighters in situations they are not equipped or trained for.
As EVs make more inroads, giving tenants somewhere to plug in their cars could become a selling point.
Chinese investment in the US has never been high, but the ongoing trade war could dampen it further, with significant long-term repercussions.
The Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring faith-based crisis pregnancy centers to post signs with information about family planning services.
A researcher takes a closer look at the millions of unauthorized workers who play an essential role in the U.S. economy – and why they matter.
A lack of affordable housing makes homelessness especially pervasive and visible on the West Coast.
Following NASA's latest discovery of organic matter on the red planet, new findings in a salt lake in California could point to where to look for alien life.
The top two system in California was created to draw out more centrist candidates and voters, but data from primaries past show it's just not working.
Wine came to the US in the 16th century but didn't make it to California – the leader in American winemaking – until the 19th century.
Environmentalists and climate hawks are cheering, but many experts aren't excited about the state making rooftop solar panels mandatory on most new homes beginning in 2020.
The California Supreme Court made it harder to classify workers as independent contractors. But it's not quite the 'game changer' some observers claim it to be.
Top contributors
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Academic Coordinator, California Institute for Water Resources, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Cooperative Extension Wildfire Specialist at the University of California Forest Research and Outreach; Adjunct Professor Bren School of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Management and Wine Business, Sonoma State University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Western Australia
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Director, California Institute for Water Resources and Strategic Initiative Leader for the Water Initiative, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, University of Hull
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Adjunct Assistant Professor and a founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
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Researcher, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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PhD Candidate, Global Projects Center, Stanford University
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Graduate Research Fellow of Sustainable Design and Construction, Stanford University
