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Leer en españolBy HENRY FOUNTAINApril 13, 2017Less than a year after one of the strongest El Niños on record, forecasters see an increasing possibility that another...
Winter snows bring spring flows.
After a record low two years ago, this season’s substantial Sierra snowpack highlights the variability of winter weather in the West.
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Men smuggle $20,000 in empty bottles for California refund, officials say.
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California’s high rate of return on beverage containers landed two men in jail for trying to smuggle in $20,000 worth of empty bottles.
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Fish affected by Deepwater Horizon spill give clues to air pollution heart disease
A study into the effects on fish of a 2010 oil disaster could shed new light on how air pollution affects humans' hearts, report...
US West enters 'new era' of unstoppable wildfires because of climate change, experts warn.
The western United States has entered a “new era of wildfires” with average temperatures now two degrees Celsius higher and the burning season nearly three...
Where climate change is threatening the health of Americans.
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Regular, unleaded or algae? That's a choice drivers could make at the pump one day. But for algal biofuels to compete with petroleum, farming...
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The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250...
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