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…
The data made clear what many have been noting since October: The monarchs are back, even if it’s far from the millions that arrived as recently as the ’80s. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2022 OS OSOS, Calif. — There was the distinctive noise of something falling. Read more…
In an epic search for territory and mates, the gray wolf from Oregon had ventured hundreds of miles to the very edge of Southern California’s crowded suburbs. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2021. Wolf advocates across the nation were brooding over the bad news this Read more…
A force of about 3,800 state prisoners, including about 250 female inmates, is trained and ready to be mobilized to the front line Source of this article, The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 7, 2016 Ventura fire camp inmate Luiz Galvez was startled awake by shouting in the dorm room around Read more…