Environment
Monday January 5, 2009 Updated 6:00 PM PST
New hope in West's battle against tamarisks
In the 1930s, when the federal government was experimenting with an array of projects to address bad...
Peripheral canal, new levees urged for delta
An influential Cabinet-level group Friday released its prescription for the sickly Sacramento-San...
Coho salmon are bred for diversity, strength
The nets that volunteers held in a remote river valley near Bodega Bay were full of the squiggling bluish fish that biologists hope...
Chronicle 1.3.09 4:00 AM
Wake up! Find ways to help the environment.
Some nightmares are so bad that when you wake up from them, you are afraid to go back to sleep. You lie in bed and tell yourself that...
Chronicle 1.3.09 4:00 AM
Many delta islands may be lost
Two decades ago, water breached a levee on Tyler Island, 8,800 acres along the northeastern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River...
Chronicle 1.2.09 4:00 AM
Power plant has no plans to stop killing fish
Despite legal threats from the city of San Francisco and protests from environmentalists, regulators have no plans to stop a local...
Chronicle 1.1.09 4:28 PM
Conservation plan needs a commitment
Back in 2000, the Clinton administration took a bold step toward ingraining conservation values into the mission of the Bureau of Land...
Chronicle 1.2.09 4:00 AM
California joins groups in species-act suit
State Attorney General Jerry Brown is challenging the Bush administration's attempt to narrow scientific review of development that...
Chronicle 12.30.08 4:42 PM
Protect the coast
One of the many headaches remaining from this summer's spike in gas prices was the nation's momentary embrace of the dangerous concept...
Chronicle 12.31.08 4:00 AM
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Larger than some states, it collects an ocean's trash.
Watch What You Eat
Identifying sustainable seafood can be a fishing expedition
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- Pro-Palestinian protests outside Feinstein's office, Federal Building
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- Californians to Bush: the feeling's mutual
- Bush: Only time will tell about his legacy
- Richardson withdrawal leaves gap in Cabinet picks
