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California, the nation’s top agricultural producer, could ban pesticides with PFAS after researchers found the “forever chemicals” on 40 percent of the conventional produce grown in the state. Schultz, D-Burbank, introduced A.B. 1603 earlier this year to ban the use, sale and manufacture of PFAS pesticides in California starting in 2035.

In 2023, California began relocating beavers (Castor canadensis) from the Sacramento and San Joaquin watersheds to return them to the lands of the Tule River and Mountain Maidu indigenous tribes. Now, researchers have found that the beavers’ return to the Tásmam Koyóm meadow north of the Sierra Nevada (especially their subsequent dam-building!) has reinvigorated the wetland ecosystem….

April 21 - A federal court seems to have struck down a swath of Trump administration moves to paralyze solar and wind permits. U.S. District Judge Denise Casper on Tuesday enjoined a raft of actions by the Trump administration that delayed federal renewable energy permits, granting a request submitted by regional trade groups.

April 24 - The California Fish and Game Commission will review a proposal for expanded marine protected areas in Santa Cruz County Tuesday morning April 28…..The proposal includes an expansion of the small Natural Bridges state marine reserve and the creation of a new state marine conservation area at Pleasure Point.

Local contractors are working together to bring low-income housing for community members experiencing homelessness. The project will use renewable materials such as straw bales to lessen climate change impacts.

Great news -- our sister organization Environment Colorado just won a campaign to protect Colorado's wildlife and waterways from plastic pellet pollution! Plastic pellets are small, lentil-sized pieces of plastic that are used in manufacturing….

When the Trump administration announced it was paying TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to cancel the company’s offshore wind leases, it painted the deal as a mutually beneficial trade: The government would reimburse the company for every penny it spent to acquire the leases, and in return, Total would “redirect” the money to U.S. oil and gas development. Now, the terms of the deal have been made public, and Americans’ side of the bargain appears to be worthless.

We are honored to have been named "Environmentalist of the Year"by Surf Industry Manufacturers Association for their 2026 Waterman's Ball. "This global nonprofit is dedicated to protecting surf ecosystems around the world, working to preserve waves, coastlines, and the communities that depend on them through science, policy, and advocacy." - SIMA

A bill authored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, would designate state surfing reserves using the California Coastal Act of 1976, which aims at giving protections for coastal areas from development and ensuring public access…

According to new data from global energy think tank Ember, the world installed a record 814 GW of new solar and wind capacity in 2025, 17% more than in 2024 (696 GW). The latest additions bring the combined global installed capacity of wind and solar to 4,174 GW (over 4 TW), highlighting the rapid expansion of the two fastest-growing sources of electricity in history.

We (recently) won a major lawsuit to protect Florida’s wetlands, home to the critically endangered Florida panther and other wildlife. A federal appeals court upheld a 2024 ruling that stopped a wetlands permitting handover from the first Trump Administration to Florida. Federal wetlands permitting has more public participation and requires consultation with tribes.

A coalition of environmental groups scored a win Monday (3/30/26)in a long legal battle when a federal court in California tossed out a set of regulatory rollbacks that undercut Endangered Species Act protections. The ruling comes after nearly a decade of legal combat that began under the first Trump administration…

We are proud to announce that we have achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded to the nation's museums! Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-going public.

Two new analyses show that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to require cancer warnings on pesticide products — even when its own assessments found a high cancer risk for those products. The Center for Biological Diversity looked at labels for all currently approved pesticides, finding that the EPA put cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 products …

At Heritage Growers, every acre is being cultivated to repair ecosystems and help the Golden State meet its ambitious conservation goals. This native seed farm in Colusa is tackling one of the most fundamental — and least visible — environmental recovery challenges facing the American West: the shortage of locally adapted native seeds needed to restore damaged ecosystems at scale.

The State of the Global Climate report highlights the significance of record-high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. For the first time, it includes a metric called Earth’s Energy Imbalance as a key climate indicator, measuring the rate at which energy from the sun enters and leaves the planet.

World Wildlife Fund Mexico recently reported that the overwintering population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) increased by a whopping 64% from winter 2024-2025 to winter 2025-2026, as illegal logging has been nearly eliminated in the Monarch Reserve…

In Antarctica a remarkable comeback is taking place. In the very same waters of the Southern Ocean where whalers slaughtered more than 2 million whales during the 20th century, pushing a number of species to the brink of extinction, populations are recovering.

A massive 300 MW / 30 GWh iron-air battery system in Minnesota, utilizing technology from Form Energy, is set to become the largest battery system by energy capacity announced globally, providing a blueprint for how Big Tech intends to firm up intermittent renewables to meet the relentless power demands of the AI era….

Marine scientist Caroline Casey explains how underwater noise from ships and industry disrupts communication among seals, whales, and dolphins. Sound travels vast distances in the ocean, but human noise shrinks this range, impacting survival. Using data and initiatives like Blue Whales Blue Skies, researchers work to reduce noise and protect marine ecosystems.

A sweeping new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) lays out an ambitious, but achievable, economic transformation: investing in the health of the planet could generate at least $20 trillion in annual benefits by 2070…

Changes in the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current in the Atlantic, could serve as an early warning of the imminent collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a massive system of ocean currents that acts as a conveyor belt, moving heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic….

Scientists have discovered that American kestrels (Falco sparverius, North America’s smallest falcons) provide substantial benefits to commercial cherry growers in the state of Michigan by eating, scaring off, and generally reducing the local population density of cherry-eating birds like grackles in orchards.

Caltrain successfully electrified 51 miles of track in the Bay Area in 2024. The new electric trains cut 23 minutes off the travel time from San Francisco to San Jose, which has allowed new stops to be added and reduced the time interval between trains at any given station. Overall ridership grew by 60% last year…

Join us for the global film premiere of Katô: Dreams of Dark Earth. This is the fifth film in the Wisdom of the Ancestors series and is set in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.