Audience-funded nonprofit news
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
-
Listen Listen
Climate & Environment
Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters.
Listen
4:32
Sponsor
More Stories
-
Western Mississippi is turning to recovery after being hit by a long-track tornado on Friday. Here's what made it so destructive — and why the impact of climate change on tornadoes is still unclear.
-
California ended its voluntary statewide target, triggering concerns from experts that many water supplies remain depleted. Other drought measures remain in place.
-
Since October, 007 has handled more than 60 tons of garbage — more than is typically washed to the ocean in a single year.
-
When mountain residents realized county resources wouldn't reach them for a week or more, neighbors banded together to help each other out.
-
We have the latest on damage and clean up from the heavy rains, winds and tornadoes that hit the region this week.
-
March should be one of Southern California farmworkers' busiest months. Instead, they say their hours have been slashed drastically due to flooded farms and destroyed crops.
-
The National Weather Service confirmed the extraordinarily rare weather events.
-
Southern California's latest winter storm is on its way out.
-
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and immediately will save lives, livelihoods and ecosystems around the world, scientists say. And there are lots of ways to go about it.
-
The National Weather Service forecasts high winds and treacherous driving conditions in the mountains.
-
The National Weather Service forecasts a cold winter storm bringing snow to mountain passes.
-
It’s scary and tragic when collapses happen, but we’ve built a whole lot of homes on hills that are being slowly eroded by the sea.
Researchers found that in drier years, larger animals are more likely to head closer and closer to where people live.
Listen
4:05
Support your source for local news!
In case you missed it
-
911 recordings obtained by LAist shed light on why and how emergency planning continues to leave people with disabilities behind. -
LAist investigates illicit dumping at three Antelope Valley sites. -
An LAist investigation found toxic heavy metals in samples of fire retardant collected from the Palisades, Eaton and Franklin fires. Here's what that means.
More Stories
-
California cities can ban synthetic turf under a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed. He rejected a bill to ban PFAS in fake lawns.
-
Today's weather is a few degrees cooler. If you happen to be at the beaches, stay safe out there — high surf to come.
-
The multimedia art exhibit traces the region's complex evolution from agriculture to military base to vast rows of warehouses.
-
Blame it on a ‘time configuration glitch.'
-
Gas stoves emit potentially harmful pollutants, but utilities and their trade group avoided regulation with tactics perfected by the tobacco industry to cast doubt on science showing health problems.Listen 4:50
-
Today is the peak of the warming trend, then a cool down to come.
-
It doesn’t have to be complicated.
-
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?
-
For the second time in the last three years, a rarely seen Pacific Footballfish washed ashore at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach.
-
Above average rainfall this year has resulted in odor incidents in landfills across the state.
