Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ El Nino in 2025?—Temperatures keep rising, as indicated by the trends that are based on...

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+ Bird flu mutation associated with increased disease severity found in two cats—Scientists say a concerning genetic mutation has appeared in H5N1 bird...

+ California, Arizona and Nevada all agree: The Trump administration needs to fix a key Colorado River dam—California, Arizona and Nevada are urging the Trump administration to ...

+ How the EPA's environmental about-face could upend California's climate efforts—The agency's plan to repeal or weaken more than two dozen environmenta...

+ As baby great whites cruise among California surfers, science finds (almost) nothing to fear—Shark lab researchers say they have a mountain of tracking data that s...

+ Judge jails recycling plant owners accused of exposing Watts students to toxic waste —The owners of S&W Atlas Iron & Metal, accused of exposing Watt...

+ A dead sea lion was left alone 'for nature to take its course.' Someone decapitated it instead—Someone cut off the head of a sea lion in Northern California and rode...

+ Water officials knew that opening dams to meet Trump's wishes was ill-advised. Here's why it happened anyway—A memo from an Army Corps of Engineers officer shows water managers an...

+ Contributor: From the Palisades to Palos Verdes, L.A.'s altered landscapes challenge memory itself—Like the Palisades fire, the Palos Verdes landslide is erasing an enti...

+ Trump's EPA takes steps to roll back dozens of environmental regulations—The EPA administrator says he is rolling back dozens of environmental ...

+ Bird flu-infected San Bernardino County dairy cows may have concerning new mutation—A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dai...

+ Rain set to hit Southern California amid flood warnings—The storm is expected to dump 1 to 2 inches of rain along the coast an...

+ California regulators want to weaken hazardous waste disposal rules—California environmental regulators are considering rolling back the s...

+ Contributor: Elon Musk's layoffs would undermine wildfire protection. It's part of a bigger plan—Firing U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service workers en masse ...

+ Can fire-gutted suburbs rebuild safer? Here's what the experts say—Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban desig...

+ California Senate leader urges Dodgers to drop oil and gas advertisers—Removing 76 gasoline ads 'would send the message that it's time to end...

+ Wildlands Conservancy co-founder David Myers, who saved vast stretches of land from development, dies—Myers helped save vast stretches of land from development, including m...

+ Cal Fire rolls out new fire hazard maps for Central California. Up next: L.A.—Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fir...

+ Lawmakers call on Trump administration to nix plan to shoot 450,000 owls, citing cost—A group of federal lawmakers has asked Interior Secretary Burgum to sc...

+ Contributor: In Trump's war on NOAA, the losers will be Americans and the economy—Without an outcry from fishermen, scientists and anyone who needs an a...

+ Lopez: Half a century ago, Californians saved the coast. Will Trump threats spark another uprising?—Here's the reason all development proposals for the coast are exhausti...

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