By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness It has choked Singapore with smoke, triggered Pacific typhoons and left Vietnamese coffee growers staring nervously at dwindling reservoirs. In Africa, cocoa farmers are blaming it for bad harvests, and in the Americas, it has Argentines bracing for lower milk production and Californians believing that rain is finally, mercifully on […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN — Dams and other surface storage are “dinosaurs.” That’s according to Daniel P. Beard, the former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the government agency responsible for building and maintaining 475 dams across the country. Beard spoke before and after a showing of the 90-minute documentary “Dam Nation” at the […]
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By Jason Samenow, Washington Post Planet Earth is on a high temperature record-breaking tear this year, which shows no sign of relenting. 2015 is, by far, on track to become the warmest year in recorded history. NOAA reports this week the globally-averaged temperature for September 2015 was the warmest of all previous Septembers on record, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Expect snow in May 2016 – Amgen’s Tour of California bike race is coming back to Lake Tahoe. The men and women will be riding on the same day – May 19. The women’s stage 1 will start and finish at Heavenly Mountain Resort, and the men will complete stage 5 at […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau This summer the Tahoe Rim Trail Association led the Connecting Tahoe Rim Trail Users to Transportation Alternatives project to study who was using the trail, what mode of transportation they used to get there, whether or not they were using two vehicles as shuttles (which equals even more miles driven) and whether […]
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By Bill Theobald, USA Today WASHINGTON — The risk of severe wildfires in the West also threatens the region’s increasingly scarce water supply, a study finds. The study, released Wednesday by the American Forest Foundation, highlights that wildfires are not just a public lands issue. Private and family lands also are at high risk, the […]
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By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News The central organization that advocates for Western states to take over federal public lands, Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory’s American Lands Council, is apparently running roughshod over state legislative rules. The Colorado secretary of state announced last week that it has “reasonable grounds to believe” the ALC may have violated […]
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By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Federal regulators said Monday that they will require recreational drone users to register their aircraft with the government for the first time in an attempt to track rogue flying robots that are increasingly posing a threat to aviation safety. The decision to compel drone owners to register their aircraft represents […]
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By Kathryn Reed Signs – the fee for a permit and one that doesn’t meet the letter of the law – were hot topics at the Tuesday South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting. A unanimous vote by the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Oct. 20 immediately reduced the fee for sign permits. It’s an […]
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By Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times Biologist Greg Asner first heard the numbers in April, but they did little to prepare him for what he saw. The Forest Service had estimated that nearly 12.5 million trees in the state’s southern and central forests were dead. But as Asner peered down upon the same forests from […]
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