As the clean energy movement gains momentum, issues about the accessibility and affordability of clean energy technology — particularly among disadvantaged communities — are taking center stage.

Salt is taking center stage in efforts to balance public safety and environmental health in the Sierra Nevada.

The Dry Creek restoration project is revitalizing habitat for chinook salmon and steelhead trout.

Imagine selecting your final resting place where bobcats roam, wildflowers support bees and birds, and trails meander through rolling grasslands, oak savannah and forested settings.

A 20-year study led by a UC Davis scientist and his colleague at the University of Haifa in Israel was recently recognized by the U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund.

After the closing of smaller food distribution centers that couldn’t meet COVID-19 required regulations, a grassroots program formed to serve people in need.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers flock to Community Supported Agriculture programs as reliable sources of fresh produce, but will they stay once the pandemic has passed?

Solar Cookers International, the world’s leading organization on solar cooking, has been based in Sacramento since 1987. SCI’s work to reduce dependency on fuelwood could have far-reaching global economic impacts.

Comstock’s spoke with Paul Towers, executive director of Community Alliance with Family Farmers, a Davis-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting family farmers and community-based agriculture, to find out how small farmers in the Capital Region are faring during the coronavirus pandemic. 

In 2016, when husband-and-wife team Kale Wisnia and Catherine Reon were scouting locations for Kletterwald USA — planned as the Sacramento region’s first tree top adventure park — they immediately fell in love with the undeveloped park, just 10 minutes from downtown Sacramento.