ECOLOGY

A storm system arriving during the second half of next week has the potential to bring widespread moderate to heavy rain to Southern California, the National Weather Service says. Rainfall rates could be high at times, raising the possibility of debris flows in the recent burn areas, as well as […]

The threat is authentic and prevalent, looming about numerous of the state’s mountain and foothill inhabitants. Right after the greatest year of wildfire in California’s present day background that observed additional than 4 million acres burned in the state and tens of millions additional scorched among the our Western neighbors, […]

The Trump administration left President Biden a dilemma in the California desert: a plan to remove protections from millions of acres of public lands and open vast areas to solar and wind farms. Biden’s team could easily block the proposed changes, which were slammed by conservationists as a last-gasp effort […]

Southern California Edison shut off ability to much more than 55,000 consumers on Tuesday, with a different 250,000 at chance of getting rid of their electric power as the utility company attempts to avoid strong Santa Ana winds from sparking wildfires. The shoppers whose ability has presently been minimize incorporate […]

Officers at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Yard are in an uproar around a approach to manage storm water and enhance local climate resiliency by cutting down “specimen trees” — some 70 a long time old and far more than 100 feet tall — to make room for […]

International warming pushed temperatures into file territory in 2020, in influence tying 2016 as the best year on file, in accordance to details launched Thursday by U.S. science companies. Very last year’s ordinary global surface temperature was 2.2 levels Fahrenheit over the late 19th century common, according to NASA. It […]

Wildfire smoke now accounts for up to 50 % of all great-particle pollution in the Western U.S., according to a new examine that blames local weather improve for worsening air quality and wellness hazards in the two city and rural communities in the latest several years. The analyze by researchers […]

In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding — unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature. Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection […]

A Southern California regulatory company slapped the Los Angeles Section of H2o and Electrical power with a recognize of violation above tools discovered as the source of a multiyear methane gasoline leak at a Sunlight Valley electricity plant. Responding to the South Coastline Air High quality Management District’s see, the […]

The Los Angeles Town Council is poised to endorse a get in touch with for a world wide Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Approval could make Los Angeles the initially U.S. metropolis — New York is also in the jogging — to sign on to the treaty resolution. Released in November […]