Despite an increase in insurance companies dropping coverage in fire-prone areas, nobody's ready to blow up the entire system yet. But some reforms may be on the way.

California farmers are receiving millions of dollars to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, making the state home to some of the first official 'carbon farmers' in the country.

It wasn’t hard for Shara Watkins to get pregnant, it was hard to stay pregnant. In 2016, she was devastated by two miscarriages. Finally, through the the aid of several medical interventions, she and her husband Robert successfully conceived again last year. They were elated when she reached her second trimester, the phase when the highest risk of  miscarriage subsides.

Unfortunately the San Mateo couple’s struggles continued. Shara spent four months of her pregnancy on bedrest, so when their doctor offered extensive genetic testing to check the health of their fetus, the couple leaped at the opportunity. Plus, Shara had a history of rare disease in her family.

“I had a high-risk pregnancy, and there had been a lot of complications prior to this,” says Shara. “And, so I just wanted to have all the information that I could.”

In the past, a doctor may have screened a parent for a few suspect diseases common to their specific ethnicity or family history, but now a growing number of companies offer extensive panels testing for hundreds of rare diseases.

“Over the last 10 to 20 years the number of genetic disorders that we are able to test for has exploded,” says Mary Norton, a prenatal geneticist at UCSF.

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to enlarge California’s biggest reservoir. But the project runs afoul of both state law and the Winnemem Wintu tribe, which says the expansion would end up submerging its sacred sites.

All about that oh-so-special feeling you get after a night of heavy drinking, from the author of "Proof: The Science of Booze."

The days of re-setting clocks twice a year could be numbered. If Californians approve Proposition 7 it would pave the way for year-round Daylight Saving Time.

Home can be the most dangerous place in a heat wave. It doesn't have to be that way.

In summer of 2017, heat waves killed 14 people and in climate-driven crisis officials called a public health emergency. KQED examines who is vulnerable and why.

One year after devastating fires, the North Bay is grappling with how and where to rebuild.

This week corporate and civic leaders from around the world will gather in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit.

The effort was spearheaded by Gov. Jerry Brown to move the fight against global warming beyond the national commitments made in Paris nearly three years ago.

"Look, it's up to you and it's up to me and tens of millions of other people to get it together to roll back the forces of carbonization," says Brown in a promotional video for the summit.

It is likely to be Brown's last big climate event before he leaves office next year, and it comes at a time when many scientists agree that time is running out for a major counteroffensive against global warming, which Brown has repeatedly called an "existential threat."