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Air pollution from wildfire smoke can pose serious health risks. Here are some key steps you can take both before and during smoky days.

Breathe easy: this regularly-updated air quality map shows wildfire smoke impacts across the Bay Area.

One LA contractor found a greener, cheaper way to keep mobile home residents safe from dangerous summer heat.

Green tree ants are a dominant species in tropical forests stretching from India to northern Australia. Aggressive, industrious and highly territorial, most of their neighbors don’t want to mess with them. With a reputation like that, over millions of years multiple animals evolved to mimic them– some to stay safe, and others to kill.

The U.S. Geological Survey’s California Water Center estimates 15% of the Central Valley’s groundwater storage capacity has been permanently lost because of subsidence.

With more industry closures looming, labor leaders are urging lawmakers to expand the safety net that has helped more than 600 workers transition to new careers.

Researchers at Elkhorn Slough are using hatcheries, habitat restoration and Indigenous stewardship to help bring back the state’s only native oyster and the ecosystem it supports.