Climate & Environment

This UCLA research project needs your help studying birds after wildfires

"Project Phoenix" relies on community science to study how wildfire smoke effects birds.

Birds near MacArthur Park lake, with the downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background, in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on June 11, 2025.

Madre Fire burns over 70k acres, more 'extreme' fire weather ahead

The Madre Fire burning in San Luis Obispo near Highway 166 is California's largest fire this year.

Two black and white law enforcement vehicles are on a road with dark plumes of smoke behind them.

Rolling Hills, also grappling with landslide damage, seeks its own buyout program for affected residents

Rancho Palos Verdes has already started its FEMA-funded buyout program for homes destroyed by the land movement.

When Fourth of July fireworks are over, what is LA breathing?

Air quality is uniquely terrible after all those official and illegal fireworks are detonated to celebrate Independence Day. What exactly is in the air and what should you do about it?

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A firework sparkles silver, yellow and orange at sunset, with trees and hills framing the image.

Six months after the fires, are LA beaches safe?

A nonprofit has run tests on sand and water samples and reports that risks to human health appear to be low.

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A beach, with the ocean along the right and sand on the left. The sky is a little gray and hazy, but a distant coast can be seen in the background. The remnants of what appears to be a burnt structure is sitting on the sand on the far left of the photo.

Low clouds bring slight cooling to SoCal

Temperatures will be a couple degrees cooler today in SoCal compared to earlier this week.

SoCal National Parks are recruiting campsite volunteers. Here's how to apply

Campsite hosts can live inside the parks for several months to help visitors with resources and more.

The outdoor entrance sign to Joshua Tree National Park.

One of the biggest obstacles to building new housing in California has now vanished

In a legislative battle a decade in the making, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act. That’s a big deal.

Two men wearing hard hats and long-sleeved bright orange shirts bend over to work on the wood frame roof of a housing complex under construction.

June Gloom conditions to continue for SoCal, but fire risk remains

The low clouds will come back this morning, bringing temperatures down a few degrees across the region.

An aerial photo of the city of Los Angeles and beyond. In the foreground is the dark green capped Griffith Observatory, in the distance is the downtown L.A. skyline.

Big Bear’s July 4th fireworks show will go on despite concerns from bald eagle fans

Visit Big Bear, the event co-organizer, said it’s deeply committed to balancing the desires of the local community with the natural environment.

Two brown-feathered bald eaglets are standing in a nest made of twigs and branches overlooking a large blue lake.

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