How Can Enviro Voters Increase their Power?
Following the 2020, California is set to redraw its legislative maps and for the first time in our state’s history, we are set to...
Coal Trains Inch Forward with Surface Transportation Board Decision
Two weeks ago, the federal Surface Transportation Board made some important decisions about the future of trails in our region. Tune in to hear...
Big Government Isn’t Coming to Steal Your Gas Stove (But Maybe It Should)
For a weird, brief moment, prominent conservatives pitched a collective freak out over the false notion that the Biden Administration was coming to steal...
In Landmark Decision California Court Finds Public Trust Doctrine Applies to Groundwater
“It feels like law has yet to absorb the lessons of science.”
Friends of the Eel River’s Conservation Director Scott Greacen is joined by Glen...
Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring
October 19, 2019
A new study in the journal Science documents the staggering loss of bird populations in North America — a decline of approximately three billion...
Humboldt Social Media-Friendly Naturalist John Griffin
John Griffith waited 20 years for his dream job. At long last, he is a naturalist at Humboldt Redwoods State Park, which he describes...
Busting Myths about the Klamath Dam Removal
Mike Belchik, senior fisheries biologist with the Yurok Tribe, joins Gang Green to give an update on the Klamath dam removal (spoiler: it’s on...
Forest Defenders Threatened at Jackson State Forest
For the past six months, forest defenders have protested ongoing logging at the state-owned Jackson Demonstration State Forest. Their concern: logging the mature redwood...
Exploring California’s Coasts, With Obi Kaufmann
Obi Kaufmann, naturalist and best-selling author, joins Gang Green to talk about his new book, The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas. Like...
Community Benefits from Offshore Wind?
For offshore wind to be successful, there will need to be considerable investment in Humboldt County—from big infrastructure, like new transmission lines and substations,...
Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?
Join us for the first in a special series on sea level rise featuring local residents who share their thoughts on the challenges and...
Kelp Collapse?
The destruction of the North Coast’s redwood forests is well known to EcoNews listeners, but did you know about the loss of our kelp...
Welcome to the Wonderful New World of Electric Bicycles!
Everything you ever wanted to know about e-bikes! Tom Wheeler is joined by Chris Johnson of Adventure's Edge and Nancy Stephenson and Sofia Valenzuela...
Interpreting the Parks
This week on the Econews report we hear from California State Parks, North Coast Redwoods District staff about their Interpretive programs, how they are...
Sea Level Rise – Is California Doomed?
Rising seas are a greater threat to California than earthquakes or even wildfires – and Humboldt Bay is ground zero. Much of the land,...
Is California’s Carbon Credit System a Failure?
Gary Hughes of Biofuelwatch joins the show to talk about the creative accounting of “net zero” carbon emissions. Can we “offset” emissions or is...
How Do We Count The Fish
On this week’s edition of the EcoNews Report host Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River is joined by three fisheries experts to...
An Ode to the Humble (and Humboldt) Oyster
David George Gordon, author of the new book, Heaven of the Half Shell, joins the show to discuss all things oysters. From indigenous cultivation...
Broad Coalition Says No to Jordan Cove LNG and Pipeline
Pete Nichols talks to Waterkeeper Alliance Senior Organizer Lesley Adams about a fracked gas pipeline that would trample farms, ranches, and tribal lands to...
Data Suggests Broad Decline Among Regional Birds
"Data suggests that 2/3 of regional bird species are in decline, 1/3 of those are double digit declines"
Friends of the Eel River's Conservation Director...
Dead Billboards, The Great Redwood Trail and More!
February 15, 2020 - It’s an environmental news roundup conrnucopia, as Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel joins us to talk about the...
Election Post-Mortem
Gang Green goes around the horn with thoughts about the outcome of the most recent election.
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Charting a Course for Offshore Wind
Offshore wind has a lot to offer: Humboldt’s wind resources are virtually unmatched in North America and we have the potential to produce gigawatts...
Toxic Tires?
On this week’s EcoNews Report, Warner Chabot of the San Francisco Estuary Institute joins Gang Green to talk about micro-plastic pollution, including that which...