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Author Archives: Lauren Sommer
How Can Anyone Hit a 90 mph Fastball? Science Explains!
Ever wonder how a major league baseball player hits a 90-mph fastball? Ask some researchers at UC Berkeley, who have identified an area of the brain that makes it possible. Look at the numbers alone and hitting a home run … Continue reading
Planning for Climate Change in a Growing Bay Area
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This won’t come as a surprise to Bay Area residents: the region is still growing. By one estimate, the Bay Area will add two million people by 2040, a 30 percent increase over today’s population of about seven million. More … Continue reading
Asking the Crowd to Help Tell the Story of San Francisco Bay
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Through a unique history crowdsourcing project called “Year of the Bay,” the California Historical Society is hoping the public will help uncover the story behind many historical pictures of the San Francisco Bay.
Key State Report to Show How Water Tunnels Will Impact Endangered Fish
This month, new details have emerged about Gov. Jerry Brown’s $23 billion plan to build new plumbing in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It could be the state’s largest water project in a generation, consisting of two massive, 40-foot-wide tunnels and … Continue reading
Tunnel Vision: Who Really Determines California's Water Flow
Governor Jerry Brown's plan for two massive tunnels in the Delta is getting a lot of attention, but a different state agency is making the tough water decisions.
California Ocean Reserves Show Promising Results for Marine Life
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A groundbreaking network of marine reserves off the California coast are showing promising results, according to scientists meeting in Monterey this week. The results come five years after the state set up the first group of “marine protected areas”—zones where … Continue reading
California Lawmakers Ask If New Fracking Regulations Are Enough
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Battles have been brewing in various states over the controversial oil and gas technique known as hydraulic fracturing, but regulators in California are just starting to grapple with it. Those regulators got a grilling in Sacramento on Tuesday as state … Continue reading
Five Reasons You Should Care about California’s Cap-and-Trade Carbon Market
California will attempt to launch an honest-to-goodness carbon market on Wednesday, officially kicking off the state’s cap and trade program. It’s part of the landmark global warming bill, AB 32, signed back in 2006 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. This won’t … Continue reading
Do High-Tech Traffic Tools Work? Caltrans Hopes They'll Ease I-80 Traffic Mess
Bay Area drivers have some notoriously bad daily commutes, but if you’re looking for the stretch of freeway with top bragging rights, look no further than the Interstate 80 corridor through Richmond and Berkeley. Caltrans ranks it as the worst … Continue reading
Tree Deaths Spike as Sudden Oak Death Spreads Across California
The U.S. Forest Service says hundreds of thousands of oak trees have died over the last year due to the plant disease known as Sudden Oak Death. Scientists still don’t have a reliable way to control the epidemic. The spike … Continue reading
