Water

Easy dinner recipes: Quinoa is a superfood! Here are 4 great quinoa salads

2013-05-22 08:00:00

Quinoa. It's a South American grain-like crop that has come to be recognized as a nutrient-dense superfood, and it's all the rage right now. The seeds, or "grains" (quinoa is not a true cereal, though its seeds resemble and are similarly used like grains)...

Lake County homes sinking; 'it's a slow-motion disaster'

2013-05-11 17:06:00

Home in a subdivision in Lake County are sinking, prompting officials to seek help. Eight homes are now abandoned and 10 others are under notice of imminent evacuation as a hilltop with sweeping vistas of Clear Lake and the Mt. Konocti volcano...

Study of shipping routes maps delivery of invasive organisms

2013-05-05 07:00:00

When giant container ships sail into major ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach, it's not just clothing and cars that they deliver. They also carry critters. The specimens — microscopic algae cells or larger castaways, such as eggs of fish or...

California hasn't spent safe-drinking-water funds, EPA says

2013-04-19 20:30:00

California has failed to spend $455 million in federal safe-drinking-water funds and isn't adequately managing the program that administers the money, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said. "Nearly half a billion dollars that could be...

Schwarzenegger: California's silent disaster

2013-04-08 00:00:00

I will always remember the day I woke to the news that more than 2,000 fires were burning in California. I thought I must not have heard correctly. Two thousand fires? How could that be? In the end, the state's brave firefighters, joined by...

Supervisors pull back storm water pollution fee proposal

2013-03-12 16:54:05

Test Kitchen tips: How to store coffee beans

2013-03-07 07:00:00

Luxurious as it may be to sip a great cup of coffee at a coffeehouse, sometimes there's nothing better than a fresh pot brewing away first thing in the morning when you've barely got your eyes open. For some, that first cup o' joe is nothing more than a...

Nearly 200 turn out to protest proposed storm water pollution fee

2013-01-15 19:02:43

State agency says U.S. cleared wildlife habitat without permit

2013-01-17 09:02:54

$50-million settlement reached in Rialto Superfund site cleanup

2012-12-05 13:47:46

Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea level rise since 1992

2012-11-29 16:20:00

The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much as in the 1990s and contributing substantially to sea level rise, according to a comprehensive new study of ice sheet loss conducted by...

California confronts a sea change

2012-11-27 00:00:00

Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey don't need to wait on gridlocked Washington to confront future risks from climate-change intensified storms. They can instead look at how California is already moving forward on common-...

Groundwater is pumped to a holding pond for use in dust mitigation at the Nevada Test Site. The environmental damage that occurred during four decades of nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site left groundwater contamination and to some extent surface contamination at the massive site,

2009-11-12 12:49:38

In a flat desert valley filled with cactus and citrus, residents struggle with an impending water shortage. Borrego Springs is a small retirement and agricultural community surrounded by Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

2007-08-16 11:02:05

SOLVENTS: Trichloroethylene (TCE) in drinking water sources can cause cancer at high doses. But it's unknown what danger it and the related compound tetrachloroethylene (PCE) pose at low doses.

2007-07-18 00:00:00