Rincon Island Being Added to California Coastal Sanctuary
The rocky island jutting just south of La Conchita was a Greka Energy holding.
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Big $550,000 Grant Will Pay for Veronica Meadows Restoration
The state Fish & Wildlife money will be used to remediate badly eroded banks.
Santa Barbara Hits Its Seventh Year of Drought
With little left in Cachuma and less precipitation forecasted, things aren’t looking up.
New Study Counts Fracked Wells’ Proximity to Private Water Wells
Analysis by UCSB researchers Scott Jasechko and Debra Perrone furthers 2016 EPA study on public water wells.
Coastal Protection? Nature Does It Best
With fiercer storms and growing challenges from climate change, California can get help from nature’s coastal systems.
Brown Boobies Nesting off Santa Barbara Island
It’s the first record of the seabirds multiplying on the Channel Islands.
ExxonMobil Applies to Truck Crude Oil from Las Flores
Hopes to restart offshore platforms; Plains All American applies to rebuild broken pipe responsible for Refugio Oil Spill.