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California water regulators have approved a new plan overhauling how farms and cities take water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and rivers that feed it.
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Tulare County officials hope the region will soon be a testing ground for a new generation of technology in a centuries-old war: Human vs. Mosquito.
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Drought is nothing new to us here in Southern California. But the climate crisis is making droughts worse, so cities are investing more in conservation and local water supplies.
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We checked in with a bee expert at UC Riverside for some updates and tips.
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Environmental activists are raising concerns about the proposal, arguing it's being rushed and may not be so "green."
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Warmer temperatures can speed up the incubation period for bugs, sometimes in as little as five days.
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89% of Irvine residents live within a 10-minute walk to a park, but that kind of access is not available in many southern California cities.
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Starting June 1st, six million southern Californians won’t be able to water their lawns more than once a week—find other ways to get water use down to about 80 gallons per day per person. But that’s not the case for 14 cities in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s service area that are exempt from the new drought restrictions.
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We’re in a drought, it’s bad, and you’ve probably heard some serious water restrictions are on their way. Californians need to conserve more water—but besides restricting water use, what else should we do?
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Los Angeles has the largest concentration of urban oil fields in the nation. More than half a million people live within a half-mile of a well.
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A climate change roadmap to be proposed in May aims to minimize costs while reaching carbon neutrality by 2045. Environmentalists say it’s too slow and reliant on carbon markets and capture technologies.
