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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders held a lot of news conferences this summer promoting alternative energy. But what has he actually done to improve San Diego’s environment?

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Airs Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

The National Park Service is warning surfers, snorkelers and swimmers that it's the great white shark birthing season off the California coast and the creatures are making their presence known as they attack seals.

Opponents of the practice say parents shouldn't impose the procedure on an infant, but let him decide for himself when he's older.

The planet, Kepler-10b, is 1.4 times the size of Earth and the smallest planet discovered outside our solar system. Though the planet is far too close to its star to harbor life, the finding holds promise for future planetary discoveries using the space telescope.

By measuring the shape and size of the bones in dinosaur and reptile eye sockets, scientists say they've determined which animals hunted by night. Flying pterosaurs were largely day-living, while velociraptors stalked their prey by night.

Scientists have found the gene that drives a virus to kill gypsy moth caterpillars in a particularly gruesome way.

The New Year brought with it a new superintendent of public instruction for the State of California. Tom Torlakson replaces Jack O'Connell who served in the position for nearly a decade. Torlakson faces the monumental task of lobbying the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown to restore funding to state education that was victim to massive budget cuts. KPBS Education Reporter Ana Tintocalis talked with Superintendent Torlakson about education in this new year.

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 with the idea of unifying homeland security efforts. But after all this time, have those efforts made us safer?