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Oceanside city officials will continue to explore a plan to bring more sand to the city's shrinking beaches. But it is not clear if the project will ever get approved. -
Tourists flock to the coastal town of Mendocino, California, for its Victorian homes and cliff trails. But visitors now are also finding portable bathrooms on the streets and dozens of signs on picket fences pleading with them to save water. -
The United Nations report on the climate paints some possible stark outcomes is no changes are made in the amount of carbon released into the air. -
Marine scientists from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the United States Geological Survey have completed a 12-day expedition off the coast of Southern California to survey the biodiversity of deep sea areas rich in minerals, it was announced Monday. -
The Environmental Protection Agency has narrowed the list of potential solutions to the ease the impact of sewage flows that enter the U.S. from Mexico. The most expensive could cost $566 million. -
Drought-stricken California has shut down one of its largest hydroelectric plants because there’s not enough water to power it. -
Project plans have it providing more than 32% of Oceanside's water supply, or 3 to 5 million gallons per day, and being the first operating advanced water purification facility in San Diego County. -
San Diego want emergency authorization to close public access to a sea lion rookery at La Jolla point. The move comes after many close encounters between the marine mammals and the public. -
California regulators say some farmers will have to stop taking water out of major rivers and streams because of a severe drought. -
Scientists and conservation groups are trying a new and more targeted strategy to bring water back to the final 100 miles of the Colorado River this year. It’s an attempt to reconnect portions of the river left dry from decades of overuse, and it’s happening in one of the driest years the basin has ever seen.
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