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Lake Superior is experiencing some of the lowest water levels recorded in 80 years. The shallow water is an inconvenience for recreational boaters, and an expensive problem for commercial shippers.

A strong Pacific storm is expected to arrive Thursday and continue through Saturday morning. This storm has the potential to produce weather rarely seen in Southern California in September. It’s esti

Celebrating its 75th year, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California. The recent rains in the county have set up the perfect conditions for the desert wild flowers to bloo

Much of Haiti is an environmental disaster area, its mountains stripped of trees, its soil easily eroded by heavy rains that produce deadly floods and mudslides. Activists and entrepreneurs are coming up with ideas to reverse that damage.

Severe drought has led to famine in the West African nation of Niger. Millions of people are in need of food and water. The story of one village highlights the difficult process of distributing food.

The global market comes into play even for a product as local as fresh milk. Limited supply and big demand are driving up the price of dairy products.

Targeting global warming, President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world's richest industrial countries pledged Wednesday to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to slow dangerous climate change. Setting a marker for success, they agreed for the first time that worldwide temperatures must not rise more than a few degrees.

With just a few days to go before Inauguration Day, President-Elect Barack Obama must be having second thoughts about whether he really wants to be president given the monumental problems the world is facing. Who, in their wildest nightmares, could have predicted the economic meltdown the nation, and perhaps the entire globe, is experiencing? Just think! Our national debt is more than 10 trillion dollars and

Another water rate hike in the city of San Diego has left a bad aftertaste for many residents. The new water rate hike will add about $4 a month to the average residential water bill. But water rate payers in the city of San Diego are beginning to total up a dramatic increase in bills in recent years. And, there's controversy over how the news went out about the latest water rate hike proposal.

More than a dozen wildfires are burning out of control in Southern California, threatening thousands of homes and forcing evacuations in San Diego County. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in the region.