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Breathing toxins

Anybody breathing in the Los Angeles Basin during last weekend's wildfires knows the air was bad. But it's worse than you think. Researchers analyzing air samples taken during the October 2007 wildfires in Southern California found some nasty stuff in...

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Goodbye, old paint: A new coat for the Queen Mary

The Queen Mary’s signature black-and-orange smoke stacks, which can be seen from 20 miles away on a clear day, stood out a little brighter on today after receiving a fresh coat of ultra-low-emissions paint, and a commendation from the South...

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Hatchery trout keep out

As Pete Thomas notes in the Outposts blog, some trout stocking in California will be temporarily curbed under terms of an agreement in an ongoing lawsuit by environmental groups. The concern is that hatchery-raised trout compete with sensitive native fish...

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No more chumming for great white sharks

Great white shark attacks, surfers, divers, thrill-seekers, man-eaters,

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Arnold's (green) Jacuzzi

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of cracking down on global warming emissions, is also renowned for driving Hummers and flying his private jet. In a speech Wednesday to hundreds of delegates gathered for a "Global Climate Summit" in Los Angeles,...

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Farming with drip irrigation consumes more water

It's the opposite of conventional wisdom: When farmers use drip irrigation on their crops, they wind up consuming more water than if they used less efficient irrigation techniques. At least that's what water resources professor Frank A. Ward concludes in...

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Gilroy man fined, put on probation for poaching

There's poaching, then there's Peter Ignatius Ciraulo. The 42-year-old Gilroy man was the subject of a wildlife poaching case the California's Department of Fish and Game termed "extraordinary." Ciraulo had been under investigation by the department's law enforcement officers, who...

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Auto bailout with conditions?

Why should Americans bail out General Motors, Chrysler and Ford when all three companies are spending millions fighting proposed government rules to make their fleets more energy-efficient? Aren't these the folks who got themselves into financial trouble by churning out...

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California climate disruption costs: billions and trillions?

Eroding beaches, disappearing snowpacks, subdivisions decimated by wildfires. Climate change in California could be expensive. Now the costs of global warming's projected effects in the nation's largest state have been quantified. According to a new report, "California Climate Risk and...

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That's one big salmon found in Battle Creek

This is not a year when you would expect to find a monster chinook salmon in California waters. The salmon runs have been so bad that the commercial and recreational chinook catch was canceled off the California and Oregon coast...

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