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The battle over Shasta Dam is escalating. This week, California’s attorney general and several fishing and conservation groups filed separate lawsuits to stop a controversial project to elevate the dam and expand the state’s largest reservoir, near Redding. “This project is unlawful,” wrote Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a statement announcing the state’s lawsuit. “It would … Continue reading Shasta Dam Expansion: California, Conservation Groups Sue Water District Over Plan →

At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the creature gliding through the water like something from a fairy tale. A Southern California aquarium has built what is believed to be one of the … Continue reading Videos: Surreal-Looking Sea Dragons Come to SoCal Aquarium →

The Cocos Keeling Islands make up barely 6 square miles in the Indian Ocean. It's a good place to measure debris because almost no one lives there. Scientists were flabbergasted by what they found.

Horwitz's publisher says he died of apparent cardiac arrest. A Pulitzer Prize winner for covering the hardships of low-wage workers, the peripatetic writer sought truths obscured by history's cliches.

Louis McDonald Jr. is 63, recently retired and "really unlikable," says novelist Mary Miller. But on a whim he takes home a dog named Layla, and the two of them "become a little team."

A humpback whale that has been circling the waters near Alameda’s shoreline for more than 10 days has now moved into a slightly deeper area nearby, according to a local marine watch group. “It’s not out in the open bay, but one step closer to it,” said Bill Keener, a researcher with the Marine Mammal … Continue reading Humpback Whale Lingering In Shallow Waters Near Alameda Now ‘One Step Closer’ to Open Bay →

The company has a long history of dumping plastic trash and oily waste from its ships, with violations dating back to 1993. In 2016, its Princess subsidiary agreed to pay $40 million for pollution.

President Trump spent his last two nights in Europe at a golf course he owns in Ireland. He said he wasn't trying to promote his business.

Monterey Bay — long considered an environmental success story–is now facing a new threat: tiny particles of plastic. And scientists are finding that it’s far worse than they suspected. The bay is a national marine sanctuary, a place where environmental protections and sustainable fishing have transformed what was once a stew of dumped waste products … Continue reading The New Pollution: Monterey Bay is Swimming in Microplastic →

Warning systems failed to alert residents of danger when volcanic activity triggered a tsunami on Saturday. Hundreds died, and more than 11,000 people have been displaced on Java and Sumatra islands.