www.sfchronicle.com What SF's nearly normal rainfall over last year means for drought Rainy months at the end of 2021 were followed by some of the driest months on record.
Impactscommons.wikimedia.org The rice capital of California is ‘now just a wasteland.’ Satellite images show how bad it is Farming data show the drought is taking a serious toll.
www.sfchronicle.com Mono Lake was supposed to have been saved from going dry. Now, the ‘white stuff’ forces a reckoning One of North America’s oldest lakes and an emblem of California’s wild beauty faces a...
Good News www.sfchronicle.com Rare 90-foot blue whales spotted in Monterey Bay - and humpbacks are jumping, too In a rare spectacle last week, a boat of sightseers on Monterey Bay spotted 90-foot blue...
www.sfchronicle.com Conservationists say time running out to save endangered salmon in Sacramento River Worried salmon advocates criticize California’s latest plan to regulate flow from...
Politics www.sfchronicle.com Newsom calls for California to conserve land, coasts to capture carbon and fight climate change Gov. Gavin Newsom said California will enlist its natural resources in the state’s fight against climate change by establishing new land conservation and carbon sequestration goals over the next decade.
Newsletter www.sfchronicle.com Uncontrolled Glass Fire still raging in Napa Valley, Calistoga and Santa Rosa: ‘Like a bomb went off’ The wind-whipped Glass and Zogg fires grew overnight with no containment. Flare-ups also forced evacuations in Paradise and Magalia.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley