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California's drought is having a devastating effect on its forests. Recent aerial surveys show 20 million dead trees so far. And the drought has a partner in crime -- the pine beetle.

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Food and Sustainability

Stockton Urban Garden Provides Fresh Produce In Poor Communities

August 27, 2015 | Rich Ibarra

Rows of corn, eggplant, and squash grow in an urban garden in Stockton, providing food for more than two dozen families. Organizers hope it's a model for future urban gardens throughout the Central Valley.

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Environment

Californians Cut Water Use 31 Percent In July

August 27, 2015 | Amy Quinton

Californians are exceeding Governor Jerry Brown's 25 percent conservation mandate.

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Undocumented Immigration In California

Farmworkers Hit The Hardest By The Drought

August 27, 2015 | Lesley McClurg

Many farmworkers in California are out of work because of the severe drought. Those who do have a job are often working harder for less money.

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$In areas where shale-drilling/hydraulic fracturing is heavy, a dense web of roads, pipelines and well pads cut through forests and grasslands.$

Environment

California Lawmakers Say Fracking Study Shows Lax Oversight

August 25, 2015 | Amy Quinton

California lawmakers have questioned state oil and gas regulators and scientists over results of an independent study on fracking released earlier this year.

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Food and Sustainability

Expect To Shell Out More For Eggs, Prices Soar In California

August 25, 2015

(AP) - Expect to shell out more for a carton of large eggs as benchmark egg prices in California have gone up by 150 percent in a year.

Food and Sustainability

Strawberry Grower Pledges To Go Organic

August 24, 2015 | Lesley McClurg

This summer, the largest organic strawberry grower in the country has pledged to grow all of its baby plants organically. Strawberry seedlings -- even organic ones -- can be cultivated in soil that's been chemically fumigated.

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