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California water officials are working on plans to deal with a continued drought. One of those plans could benefit San Diego County farmers. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

The season’s first snow survey yielded phenomenal results, according to the Department of Water Resources.

An environmental group says all of the 92 monitored beaches in San Diego County received top marks for water quality this summer. A big reason is the continued drought. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed

The National Weather Service says some of the most dangerous fire weather in Southern California comes this time of year. The service says continued drought makes conditions ripe for wildfires. KPBS E

JPMorgan Chase says it lost billions of dollars trading "synthetic derivatives." Do these complex Wall Street transactions ever do anything to help average people? To answer that question, we consider the case of an imaginary company, Chickens LLC, that is looking to grow.

The California wildfires are yet another blow to the state's livestock industry…which is grappling with a drought. So far, the fires have scorched more than 630,000 acres -- much of it pasture and r

California water officials are preparing for another dry year. A two year drought shows no signs of letting up. A state agency is creating a water bank next year. It's one way San Diego might get mor

A vanishing lake figures large in a court battle over how Southern California gets it water, a high-stakes dispute with consequences that could ripple throughout the western United States.

Forests are fast becoming a great green hope for slowing climate change. Climate planners are keen to create forest carbon banks, places designed to store carbon and keep it out of the atmosphere. But banking carbon in forests turns out to be something of a mystery.

The remarks of President Obama, as released by The White House and prepared for delivery: