If tickets to Mars were on sale, Etosha Cave would be the first in line — and she’d prefer a one-way trip, thank you. “If you want to be an explorer, you go out there and make it your home,” she says. Cave’s personal moonshot is metamorphosing environment-polluting carbon dioxide into useful products like petroleum. […]
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The Question Dividing California's Democrats
As Dave Min, running in one of the most pivotal congressional races in the country next year, chats with voters around Orange County, California, health care is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. While many want nothing less than a single-payer federal plan, as proposed by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, “I don’t see consensus around […]
See California's massive Highway 1 landslide in this aerial video
If you’ve planned a scenic coastal drive along California’s beautiful Highway 1 in the near future, you’ll have to find a detour past the Mud Creek portion that’s been covered 40 feet deep by a massive landslide over the weekend. Sure, slides and road closures are a normal part of life, especially during winter, along […]
California's Drought Emergency Is Finally Over, But Its Impact May Last Forever
View this image › A super bloom of flowers prompted by heavy rains near Taft, California, is seen on April 6. Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images Five years of extreme drought laid waste to California’s endless lawns. It withered forests and choked farms. The earth sank into itself, as if hell were about […]
California's new autonomous rules: No driver, passengers ride free
California may soon allow companies that are testing autonomous vehicles to do so without a human driver onboard – plus, picking up passengers would be allowed, as long as the ride is free. The state Department of Motor Vehicles is refreshing its regulations regarding the testing of autonomous driving technology, which date back to 2014. […]