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+ What to plant (and what to remove) in California's new 'Zone Zero' fire-safety proposal—After years of debate between fire officials seeking total vegetation ...

+ They lost their homes to fire. Now they're rebuilding with all-electric.—As Los Angeles homeowners proceed with rebuilding from the 2025 fires,...

+ Trump administration takes emergency step to sustain key Colorado River reservoir—Emergency federal actions are underway to save Lake Powell as the Colo...

+ How high gas prices have given used EV sales a jump start—Used electric vehicle sales increased 20% in the first quarter this ye...

+ Used EV sales charge up on high gas prices, even as new EV demand declines—Used electric vehicle sales increased 20% in the first quarter this ye...

+ Striking before-and-after images show extent of California's snow drought—Before and after images of the Sierra Nevada snow show the early decli...

+ More than 200,000 lost their homes in the L.A. County fires. For people already on the streets, the damage ran deeper—A new study out of UCLA shows the outsized impact of climate-related d...

+ Mayor Bass has a new plan for addressing climate change in Los Angeles—Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has released a new climate change plan fo...

+ The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records—The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the co...

+ This Long Beach startup says it has a patch for California's power problems—This long beach startup powers California's  industries using off-grid...

+ A gas that causes climate change is bubbling out of reservoirs—How much planet-warming methane is coming from water reservoirs? Envir...

+ The longer a species stays in the wildlife trade, the more likely it can spread disease to humans. Study explains why—For every decade a species remains in the illegal global wildlife mark...

+ Three years of heartbreak, finally some hope: California's fishermen can go for salmon again—Commercial salmon fishing is set to resume along the California coast ...

+ Lead still haunts yards in Exide battery recycler cleanup zone—A recycler in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries fo...

+ Invasive rodent plaguing California may have been deliberately released. Here's the theory—The nutria, an invasive rodent plaguing California, may have been deli...

+ A sea turtle named Meatloaf is fighting to keep her flipper. Here's how you can cheer her on—Visitors to the Aquarium of the Pacific can now get an up-close look a...

+ Fire survivors call for audits of Edison's wildfire prevention spending—Survivors of the deadly Eaton fire call on state lawmakers to pass a b...

+ Near the shrinking Salton Sea, children's lungs may pay a price—Scientists find that children who live near California's Salton Sea, w...

+ Inside California's audacious bid to build the world's deepest floating wind farm—Readying California for offshore wind power will require a perfect con...

+ PG&E is overcharging Californians to keep the last nuclear power plant open, report alleges—Eliminating fees for Diablo Canyon from 2027 to 2030 could save utilit...

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+ Zambia Under Pressure to Clean Up Shuttered Lead Mine Poisoning Town—Three decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed ...

+ Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters—Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far...

+ Israeli Strikes Have Decimated Farmland in Southern Lebanon—Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and field...

+ In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas—In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than...

+ One in Five Gray Whales Entering San Francisco Bay Die There—As oceans warm and whale prey become increasingly scarce, gray whales ...

+ The Global Wildlife Trade Is Fueling the Spread of Viruses—Scientists have long known that deadly diseases, from HIV to SARS to E...

+ A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View—Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising sea...

+ A Shift to EVs Would Lower the Price of Gasoline, Study Finds—A broad shift to electric vehicles would benefit drivers of gas-powere...

+ Google to Use Natural Gas to Power Massive Data Center in Texas—A planned gas-fired power plant at a Google data center in Texas would...

+ U.S. Biofuels Target Could Fuel Destruction of Tropical Rainforest—The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels m...

+ Why Protecting Flowering Plants Is Crucial to Our Future—In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering...

+ Trying Times: Keeping the Faith as Environmental Gains Are Lost—For people who came of age in the 1970s, it is especially painful to w...

+ Dozens of New Species Discovered In Deep Waters Off Australia—Scientists have identified more than 110 new species discovered deep u...

+ Indonesian Mega-Farm Drives Surge in Deforestation—Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years ...

+ Even a Few Scattered Trees on Farmland Can Be a Boon for Wildlife—New research finds that planting even a few trees on farms can give a ...

+ Experts Failing to Account for Ripple Effects from Extreme Weather, Paper Warns—A drought in Russia led to riots in Egypt. Fires in Canada fueled dead...

+ As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can't Break Its Coal Addiction—Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and b...

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