Feb. 5—A new program launched Monday in Yuba-Sutter that is expected to not only bring fresh and locally grown food to more residents in the area, but also help support small- to mid-sized farmers in the region. Called Farms Together, the program is intended to “support food banks and community distributors in purchasing and distributing […]
Two people were killed and two were injured on Sunday afternoon in a Sacramento County crash involving at least two vehicles. The crash occurred about 3:35 p.m. near the intersection of Elkhorn and Andrea boulevards in the Foothill Farms section of the county, according to California Highway Patrol incident logs. Battalion Chief Parker Wilbourn, a […]
Highlighting the hypocrisy of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who urges Russian citizens to “fight” to avoid poverty, journalists have released a video showing his luxurious residence near Lake Ladoga in Karelia. Read also: Utility crisis being key concern for Putin ahead of presidential election The media learned about the existence of the complex back in […]
Urban agriculture is expected to be an important feature of 21st century sustainability and can have many benefits for communities and cities, including providing fresh produce in neighborhoods with few other options. Among those benefits, growing food in backyards, community gardens or urban farms can shrink the distance fruits and vegetables have to travel between […]
Evergy maintained “normal operating conditions for extreme weather,” despite coal freezing, thanks in part to high winds powering wind farms through the recent blustery conditions. “The bottom line is we had enough power over the last week or so and in particular through the weekend when we had the coldest weather to meet demands,” said […]
To reach its climate goals, the U.S. will need to build solar arrays on some 15,000 square miles of land, an area larger than Maryland. Growing native plants at these sites could give a much-needed boost to imperiled insects, a new study finds. For the research, scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and the National […]
Fly-tipping in England had to be cleaned up 1.08 million times by local councils in 2022-23, the latest government figures reveal. Clearing the largest illegal tips cost £13.2m, but the number of court fines dropped by 17%, raising just £785,000. The figures, released on Wednesday, do not put a value on all fly-tipping costs and […]
Offshore wind turbines at two commercial-scale sites are now sending power to the U.S. grid. Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid, developers said. The turbine is one out of 62 planned for Vineyard Wind 1, an offshore site owned […]
A 10-year-old boy and his father were arrested Saturday on suspicion of shooting another 10-year-old boy, killing him, and trying to dispose of an illegal firearm after the fact, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded at 4:30 p.m. to the 4700 block of Greenholme Drive in Foothill Farms after receiving reports of a […]
Ali Hajimiri has spent a decade researching how to put solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth. Yet when the Caltech electrical engineering professor talks about his work, people always have three questions, usually in this order: Why not just put solar panels on Earth? Are you going fry birds in […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Unfounded claims about offshore wind threatening whales have surfaced as a flashpoint in the fight over the future of renewable energy. In recent months, conservatives including former President Donald Trump have claimed construction of offshore wind turbines is killing the giant animals. Scientists say there is no credible evidence linking offshore […]
A man forced migrants from Guatemala to work on farms in New York and raped a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, whom he’s accused of abducting twice, federal prosecutors said. Augusto Mateo Francisco, 32, of Dunkirk, is facing forced labor, sex trafficking and kidnapping charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York announced […]