Carbon pollution wafting from cars and trucks remains the state's largest source of planet-warming emissions, and transportation has been one of the trickiest sectors for the state to decarbonize. (David McNew/Getty Images)

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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The moon sets over Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco as commercial salmon fisher Matt Juanes' boat, the FV Plumeria, sits docked on June 7, 2023. With California's salmon season shut down this year, Juanes is pivoting to try fishing for shrimp for the first time. (Kori Suzuki/KQED)

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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Devils Hole pupfish gather on the precious rocky shelf that supports their entire fragile existence in the wild. (Olin Feuerbacher/NPS)

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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California Nature Trivia with California Academy of Science and Deep Look

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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The plant known as the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) is pictured in bloom with its dark red skirt-like spathe open and its yellow rod-like spadix in full view against a dark background. It opened up on Oct. 25, 2017 at the UC Botanical Garden, in Berkeley, California.

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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