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Editorial: Delay California's oil drilling protections until 2031? No way
2024-08-21 in Los Angeles TimesCalifornia lawmakers should reject the Newsom administrations proposal for a more than four-year delay to provisions of the states landmark law to protect people from neighborhood oil drilling.
Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water company to shut down California pipeline
2024-08-07 in Los Angeles TimesThe Forest Service told bottled water company BlueTriton Brands to stop piping water out of a California national forest. The company is suing to challenge the decision.
Tagged under: Drought
Column: Activists and celebrities urge Dodgers to dump oil industry advertiser
2024-08-06 in Los Angeles TimesWhat do the Rainforest Action Network, The Doors' longtime drummer John Desnmore, acclaimed climate activist Bill McKibben and "Anchorman" director Adam McKay's Yellow Dot Studios have in common?
Tagged under: Activism
Letters to the Editor: The false promise of carbon capture as a climate solution
2024-06-27 in Los Angeles TimesSchemes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are risky and inefficient, and they serve to extend the lives of fossil fuel companies.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
California wildfires have already burned 90,000 acres, and summer is just beginning
2024-06-22 in Los Angeles TimesCalifornia wildfires burned almost 90,000 acres already this year, an amount more than five times the average of pre-summer blazes from the last few years.
Tagged under: Wildfires | California
Editorial: California can make climate polluters pay for the mess they have made of Earth
2024-05-21 in Los Angeles TimesCalifornia lawmakers should support the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act, a Superfund-style bill that would force big fossil fuel companies to pay for their damage to the climate. Otherwise, taxpayers will ultimately foot the entire bill.
Recent storms pushed California's yearly rainfall, snowpack even higher — and more could be coming
2024-03-07 in Los Angeles TimesWednesday's storm dumped even more rainfall across Southern California, pushing up yearly rain totals well above average.
Tagged under: Extreme Rainfall | California
Water increasingly at the center of conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East
2023-12-28 in Los Angeles TimesScientist Peter Gleick has been studying water-related conflicts for three decades. He and fellow researchers have found a concerning rise in violence.
Tagged under: Drought
As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge 'one-dam solution'
2023-09-05 in Los Angeles TimesSome California farmers are urging the federal government to consider draining Lake Powell, supporting environmentalists’ push for a ‘one-dam solution.’
Tagged under: Rivers | Drought | Colorado River | California
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2023-08-24 (or before) in Los Angeles TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Wildfires
How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true
2023-08-18 in Los Angeles TimesWildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years.
Tagged under: Predictions | California | Wildfires
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2023-07-09 (or before) in Los Angeles TimesThere's no such thing as a perfect climate change solution
2023-07-07 in Los Angeles TimesBut we still need to confront global warming, fast.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California
Tribes seek greater involvement in talks on Colorado River water crisis
2023-06-16 in Los Angeles TimesThe federal government is opening negotiations on long-term plans for the Colorado River. Leaders of tribes say they don't want to be left out of key talks.
Tagged under: Drought | Rivers | Colorado River
Column: Big oil companies are already reneging on their global warming promises
2023-02-09 in Los Angeles TimesBP and Shell made eye-catching promises to invest in renewable energy. If you're shocked that they're already backing off, you haven't been paying attention.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | BP | Shell
In Arizona, Colorado River crisis stokes worry over growth and groundwater depletion
2022-12-26 in Los Angeles TimesEven as Arizona grapples with cuts in Colorado River water, Phoenix’s suburbs are expanding. Experts warn that desert growth based on groundwater poses risks.
Tagged under: Colorado River | Drought | Rivers | California
Column: Can scientists moonlight as activists — or does that violate an important ethical code?
2022-11-17 in Los Angeles TimesTraditionally, scientists have been discouraged from engaging in advocacy. But with the climate crisis, attitudes are changing.
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
A drought so bad it exposed a long-ago homicide. Getting the water back will be harder than ever
2022-05-06 in Los Angeles TimesThe added heat from global warming has made drought-stricken lands extra-dry. It will take more precipitation than usual to end it.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | California
With water running out, California faces grim summer of dangerous heat, extreme drought
2022-05-04 in Los Angeles TimesLa Niña was expected to dissipate, but it may linger through the summer. That's bad news for drought and wildfire-prone California.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | California
Brazil detects record Amazon deforestation in January and February
2022-03-11 in Los Angeles TimesSatellite alerts of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in February were the highest for that month in seven years of record-keeping.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil
Ukraine is a climate story. Because everything is a climate story
2022-03-03 in Los Angeles TimesRussia's invasion is yet another reason to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy, experts say.
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Russia
Getting personal about climate change made me a better reporter
2022-02-03 in Los Angeles TimesJournalists need to start demanding solutions and stop worrying about bad-faith critics.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Op-Ed: The failure at Glasgow and what needs to happen next
2021-11-16 in Los Angeles TimesAllowing global leaders to feel that what happened in Glasgow was acceptable would be a disastrous mistake.
Tagged under: COP26 | Fossil Fuels
Fire creeps closer to ancient sequoias, reaching Trail of 100 Giants
2021-09-20 in Los Angeles TimesFlames from the Windy fire are chewing the trunks of trees within Long Meadow Grove, home to some 1,500-year-old sequoias along the Trail of 100 Giants.
Tagged under: California | Trees
In drought-plagued northern Mexico, tens of thousands of cows are starving to death
2021-08-01 in Los Angeles TimesSonora is the cattle capital of Mexico. But prolonged drought is killing off the herds.
Tagged under: Drought | Mexico | Cattle and Dairy Farming
'Unrecognizable.' Lake Mead, a lifeline for water in Los Angeles and the West, tips toward crisis
2021-07-11 in Los Angeles TimesLake Mead is at the lowest water levels in its 85-year history. Federal officials who manage the lake expect to soon declare a water shortage.
Tagged under: Drought | California
Op-Ed: Expect hotter and deadlier heat waves that will make this summer seem cool
2021-07-02 in Los Angeles TimesTo say that 120 degrees in Canada is a 'once in 1,000 years' event is nonsense at this point, because the baseline has shifted so radically.
Op-Ed: Concrete steps California can take to prevent massive fire devastation
2020-09-16 in Los Angeles TimesFires are inevitable in the West, but widespread devastation doesn't have to be. Here are concrete steps California can take to mitigate fire damage.
Tagged under: California | Wildfires
UC becomes nation's largest university to divest fully from fossil fuels
2020-05-19 in Los Angeles TimesThe University of California has fully divested from all fossil fuels, the nation's largest university to do so as pressure grows at Harvard, Stanford and other campuses to join the fight against climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | California
California communities suing Big Oil over climate change face a key hearing Wednesday
2020-02-05 in Los Angeles TimesFor nearly three years, a group of California communities have been suing oil companies for damages incurred by climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California
Getty fire off 405 Freeway in L.A. destroys several homes; thousands flee
2019-10-28 in Los Angeles TimesA wind-driven brush fire chewed through hillside communities on the west side of Los Angeles on Monday, burning homes and prompting widespread evacuations.
Tagged under: California
The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires
2019-10-02 in Los Angeles TimesDriving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem. Turns out, rubber particles from car tires might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters, according to the most comprehensive study to date.
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Oceans | California
California was warned about climate change 30 years ago. Now it's feeling the effects
2019-06-27 in Los Angeles TimesA report issued in 1989 warned that California would see more droughts, floods, and fires under climate change. Those projections are now coming true.
Tagged under: Drought | Predictions | Climate Change | California
Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that’s got scientists worried
2019-03-03 in Los Angeles TimesThe concentration of atmospheric methane has been rising, especially in the past 4 years. Scientists don't know why, but it's they say it's a problem.
Tagged under: Methane
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