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KPBS Midday EditionOcean temperature off San Diego's Scripps Pier is the highest it's been in more than 100 years of testing. -
Projections for water levels in two massive lakes in the U.S. West are expected to remain high enough to avert severe cuts in states that rely on the Colorado River. Despite the optimistic forecast, water officials say there's no time to waste to prepare for a drier future as climate change and prolonged drought shrink the amount of water available for cities and farms -
KPBS Midday EditionA new report from the Pacific Institute suggests Californians have learned to conserve so well that water forecasters have radically overestimated the amount of water we will need in the future. -
Scripps Institution of Oceanogrpahy reasearchers are among the team that helped create a new historical record of shrinking ice sheets near the south pole. -
San Diego environment organizations, social justice groups and political officials are getting together around a Green New Deal to improve the local environment. -
Giant Kelp have survived off the Southern California coast for hundreds of years, but the iconic plant may be in trouble as the ocean warms. -
Sewage-contaminated runoff in the Tijuana River has been entering the Tijuana Estuary, and observations indicate contamination of ocean water now extends from the International Border north to the Imperial Beach shoreline. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego city audit has revealed that residents and businesses have been improperly charged tens of millions of dollars in fees to cover industrial wastewater services. -
Mexican officials say relief may be coming in the battle to stop polluted cross-border flows. -
Lawsuits asking the federal government to clean up cross border pollution are being set aside, for the moment.
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