Boiling Point: Toxic underground fires are spreading at California landfills
Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita…
Sharks can hear swimmers and surfers way before they smell or see them
Forget the smell of blood and all the shark fears we’ve internalized thanks to “Jaws” and “Shark Week.”…
What record-breaking heat, fire mean for California’s wine industry
It was Labor Day 2017, and the remote thermometer at McIntyre Estate Vineyard in Monterey County’s Santa Lucia…
How technology is revealing ‘Hidden Nations of Animals’
As the destructive Bobcat fire sent plumes of smoke billowing from the Angeles National Forest in 2020, Ryan…
Trump strips away Nixon-era safeguards on off-road battle
President Trump recently took action that could pave the way for opening many more federal lands to recreational…
How CalCOFI, a SoCal marine monitoring program, redefined El Niño
This might come as a surprise, unless you’re plugged into ocean science lore: The oldest and longest-running marine…
A toxic metal stayed in the air for months after L.A. County fires
After the Eaton and Palisades fires devastated Southern California, a highly toxic metal stayed in the air much…
State regulators are set to vote May 28 on the latest blueprint for cap-and-invest.
California is facing a major vote in the days ahead — and no, it’s not who will be…
A banned pesticide is still showing up in Long Beach and other coastal communities
A highly toxic pesticide that was banned in California more than two decades ago is still widely used…
California’s Delta is in poor ecological health, scientists say
California’s biggest rivers converge in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the waterways and wetlands forming an ecosystem where…
How the Trump administration sold out public lands in 2025
Last February, I climbed into a Jeep and rumbled up a rocky shelf road that took me high…
How L.A. artists are processing the climate crisis
Before I moved to L.A., I’d spent pretty much my entire professional life working for New York-based publications.…