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California regulators are planning to stop thousands of farmers from taking water out of the state's major rivers and streams. -
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is getting a new research ship, and it will be much better for the environment. -
The group says county officials are not adequately responding to a worsening environmental crisis. -
Federal money has been set aside to fix the cross border sewage flows fouling local beaches, but that solution remains a long way off. -
KPBS Midday EditionAbout 80% of Colorado’s water falls on the western side of the state. But about 80% of Colorado’s people live on the east side of the mountains. Because of gravity, that water doesn’t flow to them naturally. Instead, Colorado’s heavily-populated Front Range relies on a massive plumbing system to keep drinking water flowing to its taps. -
Sunny weather and warm waters are making San Diego beaches a popular place to be, not just for surfers, but for sharks too. Juvenile white sharks have been spotted at a Del Mar beach. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego study finds predominantly minority neighborhoods are typically hotter than predominantly white neighborhoods. Density and vegetation may be the reasons why. -
KPBS Midday EditionA prolonged 21-year warming and drying trend is pushing the nation’s two largest reservoirs to record lows. For the first time this summer, the federal government will declare a shortage. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked people and businesses in the nation's most populous state to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15% amid a drought. Newsom's request is not an order. -
A San Diego researcher has helped an Australian colleague figure out how a massive ice-covered lake on an Antarctic ice shelf disappeared.
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