California is at risk of profound effects as climate change exacerbates dryness. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2022 Unprecedented dryness across the western United States is meeting with increasingly warm temperatures to create climate conditions so extreme that the landscape of California could permanently and Read more…
Extreme drought and bark beetles now threaten California’s Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, home to Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2022 BISHOP, Calif. — Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Read more…
Forest thinning is now being conducted at Yosemite National Park. Environmentalists want it to stop, saying the work was never fully vetted. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2022. For more than a century, Yosemite National Park was viewed as a refuge where nature prevails unmolested Read more…
Stanford researchers examined how land is sinking in the San Joaquin Valley, finding that slowing or halting subsidence requires rising water levels. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2022. As pumps hum on wells and send vast quantities of water flowing to farms in the San Read more…
Industry sends fliers falsely claiming the consumers will bear cost of tighter rules Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2022 Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flier in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a Read more…
The Grove of Titans contains some of the largest coast redwoods Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2022 After the once-secret location of a famed grove of ancient redwoods in Northern California was made public, visitors flocking to see the towering trees caused significant damage looking Read more…
A 2,500-acre riverside ‘gentle valley’ is expected to open to the public in 2023 Source of this article: the Los Angeles Times, May 17, 2022 California will get its newest state park in almost a decade. The 2,500-acre property at Dos Rios Ranch — a property in Stanislaus County, 10 Read more…
Assessment is a wake-up call of a parched and challenging summer Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2022 At a point in the year when California’s water storage should be at its highest, the state’s two largest reservoirs have already dropped to critically low levels — Read more…
Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2022 California’s COVID-19 death toll is on the cusp of 90,000, a tally that comes as the U.S. is nearing its own milestone of 1 million deaths. As of Friday, California had reported 89,851 cumulative deaths since the start of Read more…
A decade ago, biologists feared the species was doomed Source of this article – The Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2022 SHOSHONE, Calif. — How the Devil’s Hole pupfish has survived for centuries in a spa-like cistern cloistered by a barren rock mountain in Death Valley National Park remains a biological mystery. Read more…