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A slightly warmer day on tap, with highs in the mid 70s and blustery conditions.
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Highs in the lower to mid 70s for today.
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More than 120 starving pelicans have been rescued in last month.
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A warming trend will unfold through Wednesday.
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Inside the effort to standardize the design of returnable containers.
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With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions.
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Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development.
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Why are we seeing overcast skies in the morning? Blame May Gray conditions.
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Coyotes are in the middle of raising their babies, which should last until September.
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Maybe in 2025? Although, 2022-23 was a La Niña year and look at what happened.
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A facility in Vernon has reached a $400,000 settlement with air quality regulators.
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More morning fog before we see afternoon sun.
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President Biden expands the mountain range’s national monument status, creating more green space access to vulnerable communities.
The Interior Department released its plan to open up federal waters off California’s coast to oil drilling, setting up a direct confrontation with Sacramento on energy and climate change.
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It doesn’t have to be complicated.
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The Great ShakeOut returns on Oct. 16, 2025. If you have the MyShake app, you'll get an alert at that time. If you don't have the app, what are you waiting for?
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For the second time in the last three years, a rarely seen Pacific Footballfish washed ashore at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach.
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Above average rainfall this year has resulted in odor incidents in landfills across the state.
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We're looking at another warm week — here's what you need to know.
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The species, including birds, mussels and a bat, have been moved off the threatened and endangered list. They join 650 other species that have gone extinct in the U.S.
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In Southeast L.A., as well as Boyle Heights and unincorporated East L.A., community members have organized against the stench of dead animals, and other environmental problems, for years.
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Everyone agrees it’s time to change the Clean Air act's exceptional events rule, but has different solutions
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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine says putting equity at the center of climate and energy policy will help speed along necessary fossil fuel emission cuts
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Nearly 400 acres of Redwood forest is now protected from logging.
