Fossil fuel industry is worsening Western water scarcity, study finds
In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water…
Hiltzik: When will the GOP clown show over COVID end?
There’s a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle,…
This sensor network could help predict bluff collapses along California’s coast
Researchers have figured out how to develop hurricane warnings, tsunami warnings, even an earthquake early warning system. But…
A Super El Niño is brewing: How bad would historic weather system get
Predicting the weather is always tricky, with even the most solid forecasts sometimes not living up to the…
El Niño and warming oceans push California, plant into ‘uncharted territory’
As extreme heat smothered the eastern United States over the July Fourth weekend and Europe struggled with its…
Water from Boyle Heights fire carries foam into L.A. River
LOS ANGELES — All the water unleashed onto the warehouse fire in Boyle Heights — some of it 480 gallons…
Scientists probe Comet 3I/ATLAS, find no signs of alien life
Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system. Scientists…
Contributor: California is at the center of the fight against Parkinson’s
What will it take to cure Parkinson’s disease? It’s one of the first questions I asked when I…
Sacramento Mountains checkerspot faces extinction risk
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly, one of New Mexico’s rarest butterflies, faces growing extinction risk after the death…
Scientists bet on AI to save gray whales from ship strikes off California coast
The leading killer of gray whales is not natural causes, disease or predators but human-made ship strikes. Last…
California turns to AI as whale deaths spike
Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale…
Looking to DNA for answers as climate change outpaces California wildlife’s ability to evolve
SAN DIEGO — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the…