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New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.
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With climate-related disasters getting more extreme, richer countries are piloting ways to compensate developing nations, since they bear the least responsibility for causing climate change. -
The city of San Diego and most of the South Bay saw majorities supporting Measure G. But that wasn't enough to counteract strong opposition in North and East County suburbs. -
San Diego's congressional delegation Tuesday praised President Joe Biden for including $310 million for the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant in proposed disaster relief funding. -
The city of Oceanside has agreed to pay $1.5 million for nearly two million gallons of sewage that overflowed at a lift station and wastewater treatment plant during a major rainstorm in 2020. -
The lawsuit was announced Monday on behalf of a group of South Bay residents. -
Dry weather is headed to San Diego County this week, with periods of windy conditions anticipated Monday, forecasters said. -
Marines from Marine Wing Communication Squadron 38 went into the wilds of urban San Diego County for a key field exercise. -
In the 2015 Paris Agreement, most countries agreed to try hard to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Delay and inaction mean that goal is becoming harder to achieve by the day. -
"Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it," Biden said. But Trump has vowed to roll back those plans. -
Peatlands, formed by ancient wetlands, store more carbon than the world's forests. But when they're drained for farming, they vent heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air.
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