drought
Fighting for breath by the dying Salton Sea
December 19, 2017The children of North Shore are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, whose sudden illnesses warn of a greater disaster to come.
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The Panoche Hills: the strange sere bones of an ancient landscape
October 13, 2015A reflection on the dry landscape and living history of the Panoche Hills: It is austere, it is dry, it is dramatically beautiful.
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California landscape scorched as wildfires blaze on
September 15, 2015With 700,000 acres burned so far this year, there's no end in sight for the inferno; or firefighters and victims, the numbers represent an uphill battle.
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Accumulation of greenhouse gases a “planetary emergency”
August 19, 2014If eloquent words and scientific data don't move you to be a better steward of this fragile place we call Earth, then make it personal.
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Today in eco-history: The worst storm of the Dust Bowl
April 14, 2014On April 14, 1935, The "Black Sunday Storm," one of the worst dust storms in U.S. history, caused immense economic and agricultural damage
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