San Diego Green News

Copenhagen meetings, climate experts have called on world leaders to also consider cutting down on non-carbon pollutants to delay climate change. And a US climate expert says there is evidence that reducing black carbon emissions worldwide by 50 per cent...

The system will provide up-to-the-minute information on outdoor and indoor air quality, based on environmental information collected by hundreds, and eventually thousands, of sensors attached to the backpacks, purses, jackets and board shorts of the people of San Diego going...

The Pala tribe is hoping to annex about 50 acres adjacent to the reservation, and Viejas is trying to tag on about 180 acres. In November, Sycuan announced it was seeking about another 2,000 acres. A Viejas spokesman told 10News,...

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck off the coast near San Diego this afternoon. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the temblor, which the U.S. Geological Survey reported was centered 43 miles west of San Diego. The quake, considered...

A San Diego-based company is getting $54.5 million in federal stimulus funds to turn pond scum into jet fuel, federal officials announced Friday. Sapphire Energy will use the loan to construct a bio-refinery in New Mexico that will grow algae...

Steve Shoemaker, who is in charge of a water-dropping helicopter in San Diego. When southern California is consumed by fire, the state employs an arsenal of equipment and manpower to battle the inferno...An increasingly familiar image of America's Golden State...

The rare olive ridley sea turtle was spotted by a security guard at the Seadrift gated community at Stinson Beach last Wednesday. Rescuers from the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito found the turtle in poor condition, its shell encrusted with...

A few miles away, people were walking home without umbrellas from late dinners. But at Owls Head, a swimming pool’s worth of sewage and wastewater was soon rushing in every second...A little after 1 a.m., with a harder rain falling,...