More than 230 crops are grown in California's Central Valley, including half of the country's nuts, fruits, and veggies. (Ninety percent of the world's almond supply is also grown here.) So we need to do something about this drought.
Spring, with its days of overcast, was always a cause for disappointment for me and my ideas of a perfectly sunny SoCal. The drought has changed all that.
2014 is on track to be one of the worst years for rattlesnake bite in the last decade, according to figures provided by the California Poison Control System
Glaciers and ice sheets in western Antarctica are melting, there's nothing we can do to stop it, and the result will be a 10-foot rise in sea level within the next century or two. That's according to new reports by NASA scientists scheduled for publica...
The California agency that manages the state's massive State Water Project has released a drought management plan for the summer, and it includes bad -- but not particularly surprising -- news for the Central Valley's wetlands.
On this particular street, the sound of mariachi, ranchera, Latin ballads, and techno music blast out of household stereos, a common soundtrack for the eastern SFV. But here, amidst sidewalk-less suburban streets, this block looks rather different.