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Audio Report on May 18, 2012 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
California’s Delta has a rich agricultural legacy, but farming there can be a risky business. Dozens of farms have been flooded over the past half century as aging levees have collapsed. Now, scientists are encouraging farmers to switch to a new crop. Instead of growing vegetables, they’d grow something that has all but disappeared in the Delta: wetlands.
Video on May 15, 2012 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
Kip Evans is a natural history documentary filmmaker and photographer from Pacific Grove, California. This is an excerpt of his short film, “Isla Holbox: Whale Shark Island."
Video on May 15, 2012 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Their basic design hasn’t changed much, but scientists still don’t fully understand the forces that allow humans to balance atop a bicycle. QUEST visits Davis – a city that loves its bicycles – to take a ride on a research bike and explore a collection of antique bicycles.
Page on May 13, 2012 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
What did the Delta look like 200 years ago? See an interactive map of the historical habitat and present day landscape, as well as the old photos, maps and journals used by historical ecologists to answer that question.
Audio Report on May 11, 2012 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
California's Delta is a far cry from what it once was. About 97% of its historic marshes have been lost and scientists aren’t quite sure what the Delta once looked like. Now, a Bay Area group is working to reconstruct it through ecological detective work.
Video on May 08, 2012 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Off California's coastline, thousands of feet below the deep blue ocean where the sun's rays don't reach, teems a diverse community of deep sea corals. Armed with unmanned submarines equipped with robotic arms, sensors and HD cameras, scientists are exploring this treasure trove of corals and the rich marine life living among them.
Video on May 08, 2012 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
In this "Field Notes" segment, Amy Gotliffe, director of conservation at the Oakland Zoo, shares her photographs and stories from Uganda, where the zoo's Bodongo Snare Removal Project works to protect endangered chimpanzees from illegal poaching.
Post on May 08, 2012 by Andrea Kissack from QUEST Northern California
More than ten years after releasing the all-electric Rav4, Toyota brings the EV model back.
Audio Report on May 04, 2012 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has been the subject of a decades-long water war, but most Californians have never heard of it. Why is it so important? And can the state ever break the water deadlock?
Video on May 01, 2012 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
One in six kids in the United States is obese, a condition that doubles their risk of heart disease. Lorena Ramos, 14, a patient at the Healthy Hearts clinic at Children's Hospital Oakland struggles to lose weight. Will she succeed?
Our daily collaborative blog with contributors from Bay Area museums, zoos, science centers, research institutions, citizen scientists and more.
The Once and Future Earth
May 18, 2012 by Ben Burress
Black Diamond Regional Mines Preserve Reopens Visitor Center
May 17, 2012 by Andrew Alden
A Ribbon Cutting with a Green Twist
May 17, 2012 by Cat
Recent science news stories we've contributed to KQED News.
California's Deadlocked Delta: Is Carbon Farming the Future?
May 18, 2012 by Lauren Sommer
California's Deadlocked Delta: Can We Bring Back What We've Lost?
May 11, 2012 by Lauren Sommer
California's Deadlocked Delta: Can it Be Fixed?
May 04, 2012 by Lauren Sommer
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