Tag: California

The population has grown rapidly, and in 2024, biologists recorded 2,133 fur seals, including 1,276 pups.

The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.

New bill aims to shift wildfire recovery costs from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.

For more on how California’s incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.

Insurance companies pull out of fire-prone areas, leaving homeowners scrambling for coverage amid record-breaking climate disasters.

An interview about the policy impact and political lessons of Richmond Progressive Alliance-led municipal reform efforts in a majority-minority city of 115,000.

The result of the state's air monitoring confirmed 163 of the 207 air samples showed pesticides.

Companies producing clothing, bedding, towels and upholstery are now mandated by law to administer and fund the repair, reuse and recycling of their products statewide.

The initiative, whose slogan is "sip, return, repeat," is part of California's fight to phase out single-use plastics.

The aim is to combat the growing environmental crisis posed by the fast fashion industry and textile waste, which has increasingly burdened the state’s landfills and ecosystem.