Winners will receive Downtown Dollars or a Youth Action Scholarship
Excess deaths from heart and lung disease linked to diesel pollution dropped by 82%
List of decisions where staff say scientific integrity was violated is expected to reach about 90 items
Lawmakers introduce bills to help save monarch habitat
Managing California’s nearly 300 parks will require a top-to-bottom rethink
Funding launches final phase of three-part restoration project for the wetlands
Virtual event will feature several speakers and women-led art show
Many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking these chemicals
Comment period is now open on draft EIR for auxiliary lanes
Pandemic starts a new trash trend locally
Your burning local environmental science questions, answered
Starting next summer, customers must bring their own cups to avoid fee
Did a secret Cold War program lead to an outbreak of Lyme disease?
Nonprofit with UCSC roots celebrates 40 years of outdoor education
Now, a Seaside rep says company is “open and willing” to extend lease
New generation of environmentalists emerges, with goal of halving emissions by 2030
Journalist and author speaks Tuesday, Sept. 24 at Bookshop Santa Cruz
An event on Thursday, Sept. 19, explores the past and future of California fires
Local water ratepayers express frustration at paying more for less
Who will benefit from plans to armor the coast, adapt West Cliff and more?
Marin rep casts proposal for a sustainability-centric revamp
UCSC biologist Barry Sinervo’s groundbreaking lizard extinction research could predict the wrath of climate change—and what to do about it
City councilmember part of push for Santa Cruz tree census
All that athleisure could be harming oceans, food and our bodies
As organic goes mainstream, Cathy Calfo steps down from the group that started it all
Local politicos fight Trump administration plan to expand drilling and fracking
Business is cyclical at the cooperatively owned Hard-Core Compost
A changing coastline and another real estate boom fuel a new wave of access disputes
Canadian researchers staying in Watsonville put careers on hold every year to study marine mammals
Experiments backed by activists and city officials getting first real tests