They help to protect the kelp beds offshore by consuming sea urchins, and they help to protect the sea beds here in the slough," University of California at Santa Cruz researcher Lilian Carswell.

A heat advisory remains in effect through Sunday as triple-digit temperatures remain across Northern California.

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The tiny native oysters of San Francisco Bay managed to outlive the Gold Rush, bay-shore development and decades of punishing pollution. New research shows they have a fighting chance to survive ...

Scorching hot temperatures are on the way to California, with a record-breaking heat wave poised to sweep the state, according to the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service has issued ...

Bee Sweet Citrus, a leading citrus grower, needed a new facility that could manage three distinct climate zones for optimal ...

The recent news that North America and Hawaii are facing a ticking time bomb is disconcerting. Scientists are warning that ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds SW at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 °C). Sunny with a high of 64 °F (17.8 °C). Winds from SW to WSW at 6 to 11 mph (9.7 to 17. ...

The biggest of them, the Kinkaid Fire in Northern California ... explains Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. That means that today’s hotter, climate ...

In Arizona, new hot spots are popping up in places in the state that have a climate more similar to California’s than ... or dust — in a construction zone, camping, hiking, working outside ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to tap at least $2.5 billion from the state’s climate fund to pay for state firefighting crews and the long-troubled high-speed rail project. In his budget proposal ...

As windy weather kicks up, weather officials have placed a fire watch on parts of Northern California this weekend. The National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for the Sacramento ...