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A slightly warmer day on tap, with highs in the mid 70s and blustery conditions.
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Expect a warm up this week as we head into fall.
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Credit environmentally conscious students — and a handful of state funding programs.
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The Supreme Court is a threat to California’s climate rules no matter who wins the election.
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We have more solar than we can use during the day, but recent policies have slowed adoption of batteries to hold onto that power when the sun goes down.
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Many stakeholders in South L.A. are excited about getting more trees in the ground, but new research from USC highlights residents’ views on where and how that should happen.
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Go for it, take a wild guess on why.
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Large swaths of the South and the East Coast are favored to see warmer-than-average temperatures, while the Pacific Northwest has greater odds of cooler-than-normal conditions this winter.
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The Santa Ana winds have returned, and with them, elevated risks of fire.
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The warnings are in effect until Saturday evening as gusty winds take hold.
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Lawmakers say that seven people living near the landfill have developed cancer in the past six years.
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A sunny, warmer weekend is in the forecast.
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We rode along on a recent aerial spraying treatment in El Monte to get a sense of how officials are responding to the local outbreak in the San Gabriel Valley.
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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There were some significant climate bills passed this year, though not all of them are guaranteed to be signed by Gov. Newsom.
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Workers and tourists in Greece took a midday break when temperatures reached 113 degrees recently — essentially reviving an old tradition: the siesta. As temperatures rise, should siestas become common again?
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The challenge is almost unimaginable: Truckloads of sand — enough to fill five Olympic swimming pools — were needed for one job to save just one small stretch of beach.
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The effects of Tropical Storm Hilary continue.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the decision today.
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The coastal areas and valleys will remain cool through the week. More inland, temperatures will rise slightly.
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And potentially lower your insurance rates.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is not only finding galaxies forming 200 to 500 million years after the Big Bang, but also that they are bigger and brighter than astronomers expected.
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The coastal areas and valleys will remain cool through the week. More inland, temperatures will rise slightly.
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A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals what Earth's sun could have looked like in its infancy.
