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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators have moved one step closer to placing big restrictions on the use of a pesticide that President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency refused to ban earlier this year. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation just released an updated draft...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk These days, many countries around the world produce food guidelines periodically to help improve nutrition and encourage healthy lifestyles among their populaces. The most recent update for Americans came in 2013 when the Obama administration released its MyPlate guidelines suggesting that a healthy...
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Supervisor Dave Cortese Even though Santa Clara County won’t be in the path of a total solar eclipse from 9:02 to 11:54 a.m. on Monday, August 21, we will get to view a partial eclipse, with about 75 percent of the sun being covered. This is a rare and...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Instagram, the photo-based social network which Facebook bought in 2012 for a cool $1 billion, continues to rack up new users, doubling its base to 700 million monthly active users over the last two years. Environmental groups, activists and photographers have realized that...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SHASTA LAKE, Calif. – Tourists are pouring into far northern California in search of the perfect river, lake, stream or trail – making 1.3 million visits for so-called “quiet recreation” in 2015 alone, according to new research. Quiet recreation is the term for activities...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service JOSHUA TREE, Calif. – The National Park system in California each year draws 42 million visitors who spend more than $2 billion and support almost 30,000 jobs. Public lands advocates hope these figures – just released by Democratic Party members of the Joint Economic...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk A recent study published in the journal Science estimates that there are some 86 million metric tons of plastic in the world’s oceans today—and that every year we add another eight million more. The pieces of plastic we discard break down into smaller...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Volvo has announced that it will only sell hybrid and electric cars beginning in 2019, signaling a shift in the auto industry as a whole toward more fuel-efficient cars that can help reduce drivers’ carbon footprints and fuel costs. “In the next five...
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Eric Tegethoff Public News Service HELENA, Mont. – National parks in Montana and across the country expect big crowds as Americans celebrate the Fourth of July and summer rolls on afterwards. But public-lands advocates are concerned about the combination of park maintenance backlogs that now total more than $11...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators have moved one step closer to placing big restrictions on the use of a pesticide that President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency refused to ban earlier this year. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation just released an updated draft...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk These days, many countries around the world produce food guidelines periodically to help improve nutrition and encourage healthy lifestyles among their populaces. The most recent update for Americans came in 2013 when the Obama administration released its MyPlate guidelines suggesting that a healthy...
Supervisor Dave Cortese Even though Santa Clara County won’t be in the path of a total solar eclipse from 9:02 to 11:54 a.m. on Monday, August 21, we will get to view a partial eclipse, with about 75 percent of the sun being covered. This is a rare and...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Instagram, the photo-based social network which Facebook bought in 2012 for a cool $1 billion, continues to rack up new users, doubling its base to 700 million monthly active users over the last two years. Environmental groups, activists and photographers have realized that...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SHASTA LAKE, Calif. – Tourists are pouring into far northern California in search of the perfect river, lake, stream or trail – making 1.3 million visits for so-called “quiet recreation” in 2015 alone, according to new research. Quiet recreation is the term for activities...
Suzanne Potter California News Service JOSHUA TREE, Calif. – The National Park system in California each year draws 42 million visitors who spend more than $2 billion and support almost 30,000 jobs. Public lands advocates hope these figures – just released by Democratic Party members of the Joint Economic...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk A recent study published in the journal Science estimates that there are some 86 million metric tons of plastic in the world’s oceans today—and that every year we add another eight million more. The pieces of plastic we discard break down into smaller...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Volvo has announced that it will only sell hybrid and electric cars beginning in 2019, signaling a shift in the auto industry as a whole toward more fuel-efficient cars that can help reduce drivers’ carbon footprints and fuel costs. “In the next five...
Eric Tegethoff Public News Service HELENA, Mont. – National parks in Montana and across the country expect big crowds as Americans celebrate the Fourth of July and summer rolls on afterwards. But public-lands advocates are concerned about the combination of park maintenance backlogs that now total more than $11...