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
Dear EarthTalk: It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face—even bigger than global warming or a nuclear war—is a comet or asteroid striking
Dear EarthTalk,
How can I minimize energy and packaging waste this holiday season?
-Marianne, via e-mail
If you’re dreaming of a green holiday season this year, you’ll have
AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
Crews were busy Friday assessing damage and cleaning up after a storm that brought record rainfall to Los Angeles, snowfall to northern elevations, snarled traffic
Santa Monica is three years behind schedule for water independence due to delays in obtaining permits for some of the proposed plans.
The city is using about 20 percent less
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JANIE HAR
Desperate families posted photos and messages on social media and at shelters in hopes of finding missing loved ones, many of them elderly, nearly
