By Linda Fine Conaboy INCLINE VILLAGE – “It’s not a matter of getting better at firefighting, it’s now a matter of too much stuff for fires to burn,” Malcolm North, forest ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station said, explaining that in 2017, the costs to fight fires was upward of $3 […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II and Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times When a catastrophic earthquake hits California, buildings will topple and potentially hundreds could be killed. But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a […]
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By Liz Kreutz, ABC-10 While many people can’t imagine themselves living anyway other than the Golden State, research shows an increasing number of Californians may be looking to move away. According to studies done by real estate sites Realtor.com and Redfin.com, the housing crisis in California is driving people to search for homes outside the […]
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By Kathryn Reed GENOA – There is something about a waterfall that always brings a smile to my face even it isn’t very big. Something about the magic of Mother Nature; showing who’s boss, mixing up the contours of the landscape. I’m never disappointed. A week ago eight people and two dogs set off to […]
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By John Freemuth, The Conversation The Trump administration is clashing with conservation groups and others over protection for the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a bird widely known for its dramatic mating displays. The grouse is found across sagebrush country from the Rocky Mountains on the east to the Sierra and Cascade mountain ranges on […]
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By Esprit Smith, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory A NASA-led study shows that climate change is likely to intensify extreme weather events known as atmospheric rivers across most of the globe by the end of this century, while slightly reducing their number. The new study projects atmospheric rivers will be significantly longer and wider than the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Keys has set up a high-tech boat wash of sorts in order to prevent more invasive weeds from reaching the heart of Lake Tahoe. Beginning next week the bubble curtain is expected to be fully operational. This device complements the boat backup station that was implemented two years ago. Sea bins […]
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By Taryn Luna and Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee The drought may be over, but California residents should prepare themselves for new and more permanent restrictions on water use. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pair of bills Thursday to set permanent overall targets for indoor and outdoor water consumption. Assembly Bill 1668 by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, […]
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By Nathan Bomey, USA Today Drugs are being detected in a growing share of drivers responsible for fatal crashes, according to a new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association. Although it’s difficult to tell when drugged driving is a cause of accidents, the findings provide fresh reason for concern that marijuana and opioids are driving […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sobering. Scary. Eye-opening. Educational. Thought-provoking. Those are just a few of the ways to describe “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner” (Bloomsbury 2017) by Daniel Ellsberg. If the author’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he is the person who released the Pentagon Papers, which were the subject of the […]
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