California:
Southern California has a vast array of transplants lured by the moderate climate and endless days of sunshine, and perhaps none are more exotic than the urban parrots that have come to colonise bedroom communities ringing major cities like San...
Posted on May 18, 2007 12:13 PM • 0 Comments •
Asia's air pollution doesn't pass harmlessly out to sea. Vast clouds of dust, soot, and other tiny particles called aerosols migrate over the Pacific from eastern Asia to North America. Now a team of scientists is in the midst of...
Posted on May 17, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments •
In the Central Valley of California schoolchildren are receiving more than a dose of reading, writing, and arithmatic. Over the past decade, hundreds, possibly thousands, of schoolchildren have been exposed to farm chemicals linked to sickness, brain damage and birth...
Posted on May 16, 2007 05:45 PM • 0 Comments •
The closure of Clark Foam drew attention to an ugly shortcoming in the surf industry an over reliance on toxic materials, a reality that conflicted with surfings idyllic, environmentally-friendly image. Still, by all accounts, the push to make cleaner surfboards...
Posted on May 16, 2007 12:32 PM • 0 Comments •
Researchers at UC Riverside have finally discovered why the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles are bubbly. Hardy bacteria embedded in the natural asphalt are eating away at the petroleum and burping up methane. Of the bacteria the researchers...
Posted on May 15, 2007 10:45 PM • 0 Comments •
Ron Coronado was a retired monkey wrencher known for giving a fiery speech or two about his extreme tactics to protect wildlife. Shortly after a speaking engagement in San Diego four years ago, a new housing development on the edge...
Posted on May 14, 2007 11:45 AM • 0 Comments •
The recent sudden collapse of bee colonies mystified scientists and farmers concerned over the potential commerical impact on open-pollinated crops such as almonds. Without workers bees spreading pollen there's no harvest. Experts think they may have the answer to the...
Posted on April 26, 2007 01:00 PM • 0 Comments •
When I first began covering food security a few years ago, people casting doubt on industrial farming practices were often dismissed as reactionary luddites over- romanticizing the production of food. The latest pet food scare indicates consumers have every reason...
Posted on April 20, 2007 02:02 PM • 0 Comments •
As the Innocence Project closes in on the release of their 200th wrongly convicted client- many of them facing life if not death sentences- from prison, on the basis of DNA evidence. You might think the accomplishment would spark a...
Posted on April 20, 2007 01:41 PM • 2 Comments •
The Knight Science Tracker spotted this today, LA Times science journalist Usha Lee McFarling along with two other staff writers won the Pulitzer Prize for their five- part explanatory series called Altered Oceans. A richly detailed account of human environmental...
Posted on April 17, 2007 11:47 AM • 2 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
