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The San Diego River Park Foundation says it expects to reach a milestone at a river clean-up event Saturday. The group estimates it's removed one million pounds of trash from the San Diego River over the past four years. -
San Diego County beaches scored high marks in the 2009 End of Summer Beach Report Card released Wednesday by environmental group Heal the Bay -
A photographer who has worked for National Geographic has been exploring development taking place in beautiful areas and his latest focus is Baja California. Ralph Lee Hopkins joins us to discuss his three month journey into the depths of Baja California. -
Most surfers are environmentally-conscious people, who oppose pollution and advocate for clean oceans. Yet, the process for making surfboards, especially the foam cores, can be very toxic and hazardous to the environment. We speak to world-renowned surfer Rob Machado, and other members of the local surf community about what can be done to clean up the surf industry. -
Why is there a Texas-sized patch of garbage floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? How did the trash get there, and what can be done to remove it? We speak to a group of researchers who recently returned from a Scripps Institute of Oceanography expedition to study the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. -
UC San Diego researchers are trying to figure out what's going on with a huge patch of garbage in the North Pacific Ocean. -
An environmental group is using an underwater robot for ocean research off the California coast. The high-tech tool will explore areas beyond the reach of divers. -
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About 50 volunteers will be working Saturday to maintain a stretch of coastal dunes at the mouth of the San Diego River. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce tells us the area along the river at Dog Beach is one of the last remaining habitats of its kind in California. -
The seals at the La Jolla Children’s pool can stay where they are for at least a few more months. KPBS reporter Katie Orr says a state judge has delayed his earlier ruling that the seals be removed by Thursday.
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