The Latest Stories From KQED Science
| Ford, General Motors OK California's Plan to Ban New Diesel Big Rig Sales | | The Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association once opposed the state’s clean truck rules, including a ban on the sale of new diesel big rigs by 2036. Now, it will follow them. | | |
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| California's Salmon Fishers Are Facing a Summer Without Salmon. Will They Get Federal Help? | | Commercial fishers are scrambling to find alternate sources of income with California's salmon season completely shut down for the first time in over a decade. | | |
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| Rare Devils Hole Pupfish Offers Inspiring Story of Survival in Death Valley | | Estimated to have inhabited Devils Hole in Death Valley for the last 10,000 years, the Devils Hole pupfish is an endangered species that has proven incredibly resilient. | | |
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| | | Greenbelt Alliance | Sea levels are rising, summers are hotter, and wildfires and major floods are a regular threat. Greenbelt Alliance has identified 19 Bay Area Resilience Hotspots where these climate impacts are extreme—and where communities are taking action. Is your city one of them?
Explore our interactive digital map at greenbelt.org/hotspots.
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| California Nature Trivia with California Academy of Sciences and Deep Look | | KQED and the California Academy of Sciences challenge you to a night of nature trivia! Join KQED Science reporter and host of Deep Look Laura Klivans and Academy scientists and curators on July 18 at 7:00pm at KQED for questions about local flora and fauna. Special Deep Look wildlife videos will also be screened. Tickets required. | | |
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| Deep Look: This Giant Plant Looks Like Raw Meat and Smells Like Dead Rat | | The corpse flower opens when it’s warm, and its survival strategy is based on deception. It’s not a flower and it’s not a rotting dead animal, but it mimics both. The specimen named Scarlet at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco is in bloom. Learn more about the corpse flower in this Deep Look episode from our archives. | | |
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