Oct 09 Watch Restored wetlands welcome wildlife and protect against future floods in San Francisco Bay Area By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 09 See just how much is left of San Francisco Bay’s shrinking wetlands By Cat Wise Leaders from the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project have an ambitious 50-year project to turn former barren industrial salt ponds back into thriving wetlands habitat. The hope is that the restored tidal marshes will mitigate some of the impacts… Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch See just how much is left of San Francisco Bay’s shrinking wetlands By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch Wine country residents pick up after 6.0 earthquake strikes Napa By PBS News Hour Northern California’s Napa Valley began to assess the damage caused by a 6.0 earthquake on Sunday -- the largest quake to rock the region since 1989. At least 90 homes and buildings were deemed unsafe for occupancy, while the wine… Continue watching
Aug 13 Cultivating the land to turn over a new leaf By Larisa Epatko Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project -- a farm-based education program for ex-offenders and at-risk youth -- says she isn’t teaching gardening so much as teaching people how to work. Continue reading
Jul 31 Batkid returns and he’s stronger than ever By Justin Scuiletti While Batman celebrates his diamond jubilee this year, it was last November that a tinier black-caped crusader stole headlines. It was a wish come true for Batkid, aka Miles Scott, a 5-year-old in remission after a three-year battle with leukemia. Continue reading
Jul 25 I sing the book old-fashioned: Printing Whitman’s masterpiece by hand By Cat Wise The Arion Press in San Francisco is one of the country’s last fine book printers creating limited edition, handmade books using centuries-old letterpress printing equipment. Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Documenting gay rights activists at dawn of the movement By PBS News Hour KQED presents a report on photographer Anthony Friedkin and his efforts to document gay life more than 40 years ago. Friedkin's photographs were ahead of their time and most galleries wouldn’t show them -- until now. The culmination of Friedkin’s… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch News Wrap: ‘Don’t come back to Afghanistan,’ Taliban fighter tells Bergdahl in video By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Former inmate speaks out against U.S. ‘commitment’ to mass incarceration By PBS News Hour During Michael Santos’ 26 years in federal prisons, he read books on history and law, earned undergraduate and master’s degrees and wrote seven books about the criminal justice system. Now, just six months after his release, Santos is imploring prisoners… Continue watching