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Read with us! KQED's Climate Book Club is taking up "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. We will gather to discuss during the Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library on April 11. Our guest speaker will be professor of law and the founding Director of the Environmental Law Clinic, Claudia Polsky.
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Heat Wave Could Blast More Bay Area Temperature Records Friday
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California Condors Are Still Dying — Despite a Lead Ammo Ban
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Record-Breaking Heat Wave Bakes the Bay Area Through Friday
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‘A Delight-Mare’ — Bay Area Sizzles, March Heat Wave Could Shatter Records
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Hot in the City: Bay Area, Sierra Nevada Brace for Unusual March Heat Wave
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An illustration of a landscape with a tree on the right and a title that says "KQED Climate Book Club."

Read With KQED the Book That Changed How We See Nature

Read with us! KQED's Climate Book Club is taking up "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. We will gather to discuss during the Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library on April 11. Our guest speaker will be professor of law and the founding Director of the Environmental Law Clinic, Claudia Polsky.
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Heat Wave Could Blast More Bay Area Temperature Records Friday

Unseasonably high heat is rewriting Bay Area record books this week, with forecasters warning of more highs before temperatures ease.
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California Condors Are Still Dying — Despite a Lead Ammo Ban

New research reveals why the endangered birds remain at risk years after California banned lead ammunition. Exclusive to KQED.
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Record-Breaking Heat Wave Bakes the Bay Area Through Friday

A rare early-season heat wave is bringing near-summer temperatures, record highs and elevated wildfire risk to much of California.
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‘A Delight-Mare’ — Bay Area Sizzles, March Heat Wave Could Shatter Records

Bay Area cities could see long-standing March temperature records broken, as an early-season heat wave bakes Northern California.
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Hot in the City: Bay Area, Sierra Nevada Brace for Unusual March Heat Wave

Forecasters said an early heat wave in California could break Bay Area records and threaten the state’s fragile snowpack.
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Why Mammals Gave Up on Laying Eggs

Eggs helped animals conquer land—but most mammals stopped laying them. Why is that?
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