Environment | Supreme Court declines to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits By Associated Press January 13, 2025 at 11:17 a.m. The oil and gas companies appealed to the Supreme Court after Hawaii’s highest court allowed...
Environment | What the Los Angeles fires might mean for the Bay Area home insurance market By Ethan Varian January 11, 2025 at 12:33 p.m. Not only would existing homeowners continue to see rate hikes and lose coverage, but families...
Environment | Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | The wharves of Santa Cruz County By Gary Griggs January 11, 2025 at 9:36 a.m. The early immigrants to Santa Cruz County from the east quickly realized that there was...
Environment | Biden climate adviser says California wildfires show ‘you have to take the science seriously’ By Associated Press January 10, 2025 at 11:06 a.m. Trump has vowed to undo many climate policies pushed by Biden and claimed this week...
Weather | Onset of weekend will bring a wind advisory to Santa Cruz Mountains but fire danger considered low By Rick Hurd January 10, 2025 at 11:27 a.m. The heaviest winds are expected to be in the East Bay Hills, the Eastern Santa...
Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold By Associated Press January 10, 2025 at 12:09 p.m. It was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.
Crashes and Disasters | “Extreme fire behavior” expected in Los Angeles as fires rage By Grant Stringer January 10, 2025 at 3:51 a.m. Death and damage tolls rose as largest fires remained uncontained after three days.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Latest Headlines | Santa Cruz County strike teams head south to fight raging Los Angeles fires By PK Hattis January 9, 2025 at 4:03 p.m. Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit Chief Jed Wilson told the Sentinel that 89 Cal...
Crashes and Disasters | Los Angeles fires: Catastrophic weather conditions drive firestorms across Southern California By Paul Rogers January 9, 2025 at 4:10 p.m. Craig Clements, director of San Jose State University’s Fire Weather Research Lab, said Northern California...
It’s not really the typical time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that? By Associated Press January 9, 2025 at 9:59 a.m. Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration...