Travelers flying in and out of Los Angeles International Airport are being treated to a rare visual spectacle of large wildflower fields coming into bloom between runways.
Heavy winter rains
San Francisco’s city attorney is cracking down on e-cigarettes that some say aggressively target kids drawn to vaping.
Dennis Herrera announced Tuesday that he’s teamed up with Chicago
Hawaii would be the first state in the U.S. to ban most plastics at restaurants under legislation that aims to cut down on waste that pollutes the ocean.
Dozens
Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows.
The
Santa Monica residents have been receiving cleaner electricity since February and local businesses soon will too.
City Council decided last September abandon Southern California Edison (SCE) in favor of Clean
Like Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz,” the Southern California city of Lake Elsinore is being overwhelmed by the power of the poppies.
About 150,000 people flocked over the
Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard that China and other nations have gone gangbusters with reforestation projects that are ambitious enough to have a significant impact on cutting carbon emissions. Why
California is free of drought for the first time in more than seven years and only a small amount of its territory remains abnormally dry as a very wet winter
Local researchers have found the air quality in Santa Monica, while generally good, gets worse on the weekends and varies across the city.
Graduate students at the Pardee RAND Graduate
Santa Monica will experience more frequent droughts and coastal flooding, hotter temperatures and poorer air quality as the world’s climate changes throughout the next century, according to new documents
Joshua Tree National Park will temporarily close this week so officials can address damage and sanitation problems that have occurred during the partial federal government shutdown.
The National Park Service
Dear EarthTalk: Is so-called eco-friendly dry cleaning a reality? – Jane Krause, Garden City, NJ
Although some greener alternatives exist, most dry cleaners still use perchloroethylene (“perc” for short), a petroleum-based
