LeakBird

(Jan. 30, 2009, The Green Leap Forward)
Christine is a doctoral candidate in University of North Carolina’s program in environmental planning and policy and recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy. Her doctoral dissertation examines the changing nature of irrigation governance in northern China.  Her expertise is [...]

(Jan. 14, 2009, Central Coast)
More than 20 cities stretching from the Bay Area to the Mexican border matched or broke record high temperatures Tuesday, including Monterey at 74 and Salinas at 76, according to AccuWeather.
In Santa Cruz, where the high of 79 was one degree short of the 1948 record, many took to the beaches [...]