Graham Cooper sleeps with his head in a bag. Not just any bag. This one has a hose attached to a motor that slowly lowers the oxygen level to mimic, as faithfully as possible, the agonies of fitful sleep at extreme altitude: headaches, dry mouth, cerebral malaise. "It's not all bad," Cooper insisted, nodding to the humming motor. "That's like white noise." Cooper, 54, an Oakland biotech executive who has handled finance for a number of companies, including one that sold for $7 billion, isn’t a...
The Moorpark Unified School District announced its status as a 2024 California Green Ribbon School Friday for exemplary commitment toward environmental goals.
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California water regulators took the unprecedented step of cracking down on one of the state’s major farming regions for failing to take steps to curb growers’ excessive pumping of groundwater, which has sent water levels into rapid decline and is causing the land to sink. The State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously Tuesday to place the Tulare Lake basin on “probationary” status for failing to adopt sufficient measures to address chronic overpumping. Falling groundwater levels have...
Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz is selling her 65-acre California farm estate just five years after she purchased the property. [Read More]
On June 12, California will open its first new state park in nearly a decade, setting aside 1,600 acres near the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers in the San Joaquin Valley. The park will give visitors a glimpse of what the valley's waterways were like before the arrival of agriculture, but it will be a while before the site offers many activities. Or has a name. The site is known as Dos Rios, but state officials have yet to officially name it. It sits eight miles west of...
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The year was 2002 and Ethan Hawke was up for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his work in “Training Day.” When Marcia Gay Harden read Jim Broadbent’s name, winning for “Iris,” Hawke’s co-star Denzel Washington whispered something in his ear. It wasn’t “boom!” As Hawke revealed in a recent interview, Washington – who
Green Party 2024 presidential candidate Jill Stein was among 100 people arrested Saturday at Washington University in St. Louis, her campaign manager confirmed to Fox News Digital. Stein's campaign manager, Jason Call, said that he, Stein and deputy campaign manager Kelly Merrill-Cayer were all arrested at the encampment on the campus. "The demand from the encampment was specifically for the university to divest from Boeing, which manufactures munitions used in the ongoing genocide against the...
Loading A new graphic memoir follows the life of Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist fighting for diverse communities in San Francisco. Many of the people Ahn represents are facing the catastrophic effects of Californian wildfires, drought, climate change and economic inequality. Ahn joins us to discuss his new book, Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice. In honor of Earth Day, we discuss ways to use less energy, create...
Despite the first minister's boasts about his climate achievements his government failed to give permission for a new £8bn offshore wind farm near Fife which is likely to be delayed.