Controlled burn planned for Monday on San Mateo County coast
A column of smoke will be seen Monday for miles across parts of the Bay Area. But it’s not an emergency. CalFire crews have scheduled a controlled burn Monday along …
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Tsunami warning for Bay Area after 7.0 earthquake hits Northern California coast
A tsunami warning has been lifted after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of northern California on Thursday morning, rattling cities as far south as Oakland, shutting down …
Musk’s battle with Coastal Commission shows its effectiveness
Let’s put the California Coastal Commission in charge of the entire state. Why? Because, in this land of weak governments and cowardly corporations, the Coastal Commission is the …
California businessmen’s beach ‘sandbox’ spat spills into court
By Rachel Graf and John Gittelsohn | Bloomberg In Malibu, the upper crust Pacific Ocean enclave near Los Angeles, James Kohlberg, son of the late KKR & Co. co-founder Jerome …
$16M restoration of historic structure begins
The winds howled and the waves crashed 100 feet below as J.P. Pelletier, a burly union ironworker from Buffalo, New York, inched his way out onto dizzying scaffolding near the …
Fresh batch of YIMBY housing bills clash with California’s coastal protections
Last year, state lawmakers broke from tradition by not including an exception for the California coast in a major housing law. That deliberate omission came despite opposition from the California …
Is restoring California’s cutest keystone species worth it?
Sea otters are terminally cute critters and a delight to view rolling and diving in the kelp canopy of Monterey Bay, where some 3,000 endangered southern otters play an essential …
Computer modeling is helping the Bay Area make plans
As he walks around his Oakland office near I-880, environmental advocate Brian Beveridge sees obvious issues: diesel exhaust and piles of trash. But he has deeper concerns — literally. Beveridge, …
California earns an A in Surfrider’s annual State of the Beach report
When it comes to managing its coast, California is far ahead of other states in preparing for climate change, at least one environmental advocacy group says. The Surfrider Foundation’s annual …
What’s behind E. coli at Point Reyes National Seashore?
The National Park Service has found E. coli bacteria levels well above health standards in several water bodies around the Point Reyes National Seashore, reigniting the contentious debate over the …