6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (195+ words) Warmer ocean waters might prompt a more shark-filled summer along the California coast. Chris Lowe is a professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at Cal State, Long Beach, Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (287+ words) On June 26, representatives of the Napa County League of Women Voters Climate Change Committee attended a meeting of the Napa County Climate Action Committee. At the meeting, the Bay Area Air District gave a presentation on Rule 9-6, which has been…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (350+ words) The world as we know it today was built on the back of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this process has come at a tremendous cost. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are rapidly warming our world at a rate that has…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (438+ words) Calvin would be proud. No, not the diminutive reactionary from "Calvin and Hobbes" fame, though surely he would have had similar sentiments regarding the latest from the Bay Area Air District, or, ironically, BAAD. BAAD generously offers we can keep…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (943+ words) Plans by the Bay Area Air District to phase out natural gas water heaters and furnaces to create cleaner air received an airing-out before the Napa County Climate Action Committee. Jennifer Lam of the air district explained what's planned for…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (457+ words) A look at the Moore Creek woodlands. NBFIP is a partnership between the Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) of Napa, Sonoma, Gold Ridge, and Mendocino counties, the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center (CLERC) of Lake County, and Conservation Works, which supports…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (249+ words) Growing up in Napa, I didn’t think much about water. It was part of my life without me realizing it. Hiking Conn Dam to watch the water spilling over, picking prunes, hills covered in a green canopy of trees. The…...

1+ mon, 13+ hour ago  (478+ words) The Land Trust of Napa County recently oversaw a woodland thinning effort in the Aetna Springs area to clear flammable plant fuels and limit the spread of a wildfire. The Land Trust of Napa County announced recent forest thinning and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (673+ words) Every spring, I feel a little sad to see the grassy hillsides and meadows fade from winter-green to gold. But that’s just a fact of life in Napa and most of "the golden state.” It’s what we are seeing now,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (707+ words) The many winery and land use applications presented to the County Planning Department, Board of Supervisors, and the Planning Commission are too often deficient in regard to well extraction data and any potential injury to our watercourses. With our focus…...