3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (171+ words) Nationally, waste diversion remains a persistent challenge. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, roughly half of all municipal solid waste generated in the United States is sent to landfills, while only about 32% is recycled or composted, underscoring the ongoing need…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1000+ words) BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — Every year, 70,000 people flock to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to leave behind their worldly troubles and exist in a bubble that is Burning Man. Burning Man operates on 10 core principles, ranging from radical inclusion to leaving…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1581+ words) FILE: Burning Man festival participants endure a dust storm on the playa within the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev. Burning Man is known for many things, but mild weather is not one of them. Last summer, the 70,000-person desert…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (687+ words) Californians are spotting swarms of dragonflies flitting around parks, chasing mosquitoes in ponds and hunting flies on farms, a phenomenon experts say was likely fueled by unusually warm spring rains. Peter Veilleux, who owns a nursery in Oakland, said he…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (405+ words) A bottlenose dolphin that spent more than four decades at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo was euthanized last month after years in captivity, prompting an animal rights group to renew calls for the park's remaining dolphins to be moved…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (405+ words) Stay up to date with the best thing to do, breaking local news, hidden gems, and exclusive recommendations in your city. Rescued after an attack by subadult eagles in mid-July, the 14-year-old matriarch passed away at the Ojai Raptor Center…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (300+ words) Puma kittens linger by a road. California drivers hit as many as 100,000 deer each year by some estimates. Without wild cats, that tally could be even larger, according to new research. To explain this phenomenon, the researchers reason that the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (418+ words) Earth Funeral wants new laws in North Carolina. The laws would let them build a $10 million site for human composting. Charlotte sits at the top of their location list. This San Francisco and New York company runs sites in Washington,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (95+ words) Whale watchers in Monterey Bay witnessed orcas launching out of the water last weekend as they tailed a pod of dolphins. The owner of Sanctuary Cruises, which runs whale watching tours in Monterey Bay, said a boat captain witnessed the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (972+ words) The Casa Diablo herd of mule deer call the Eastern Sierra Nevada home. They’re migrants. In the spring, after the snow melts, the herd seeks refuge from summertime heat in the high elevations of the mountains. But come fall, the…...