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+ LA Times Environment: 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 removal within the first 5 feet of homes and ecologists backing selective landsc...
+ LA Times Environment: They lost their homes to fire. Now they're rebuilding with all-electric.—As Los Angeles homeowners proceed with rebuilding from the 2025 fires, a new trend is emerging across the Palisades and Eaton burn areas. Emergency or...
+ LA Times Environment: Trump administration takes emergency step to sustain key Colorado River reservoir—Emergency federal actions are underway to save Lake Powell as the Colorado River crisis intensifies.
+ LA Times Environment: How high gas prices have given used EV sales a jump start—Used electric vehicle sales increased 20% in the first quarter this year compared to last as prices at the pump continue to climb.
+ LA Times Environment: 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 year compared to last as prices at the pump continue to climb.
+ LA Times Environment: Striking before-and-after images show extent of California's snow drought—Before and after images of the Sierra Nevada snow show the early decline in California's snowpack. Statewide snowpack levels sit at 20% of their histo...
+ LA Times Environment: 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 disasters like the 2025 fires on unhoused populations.
+ LA Times Environment: 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 for Los Angeles, setting goals for solar energy, EV chargers and water recycling.
+ LA Times Environment: The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records—The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it could lead to a warm, humid a...
+ LA Times Environment: 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 power
+ LA Times Environment: A gas that causes climate change is bubbling out of reservoirs—How much planet-warming methane is coming from water reservoirs? Environmental groups want California to track emissions.
+ LA Times Environment: 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 markets, the risk of interspecies disease increases, according to a new study.
+ LA Times Environment: 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 this spring for the first time since 2022. Fishery regulators decided to allow a...
+ LA Times Environment: Lead still haunts yards in Exide battery recycler cleanup zone—A recycler in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries for a century and there is still lead in people's yards after a decade of cleanup.
+ LA Times Environment: Invasive rodent plaguing California may have been deliberately released. Here's the theory—The nutria, an invasive rodent plaguing California, may have been deliberately released. Wildlife experts have a theory on how they got here
+ LA Times Environment: 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 at Meatloaf, a rescued green sea turtle undergoing rehabilitation after a serious...
+ LA Times Environment: Fire survivors call for audits of Edison's wildfire prevention spending—Survivors of the deadly Eaton fire call on state lawmakers to pass a bill requiring audits of spending by Southern California Edison and the state's t...
+ LA Times Environment: Near the shrinking Salton Sea, children's lungs may pay a price—Scientists find that children who live near California's Salton Sea, where dust is a problem, suffer from diminished lung development.
+ LA Times Environment: Inside California's audacious bid to build the world's deepest floating wind farm—Readying California for offshore wind power will require a perfect concert of major port upgrades, hundreds of miles of new transmission lines and win...
+ LA Times Environment: 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 utility customers an estimated $1.84 billion.
+ Yale Environment 360: Zambia Under Pressure to Clean Up Shuttered Lead Mine Poisoning Town—Three decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed down, people in Kabwe, Zambia, are still dealing with the aftermath. Facing perv...
+ Yale Environment 360: Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters—Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty...
+ Yale Environment 360: Israeli Strikes Have Decimated Farmland in Southern Lebanon—Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and fields. Lebanese officials say that one-fifth of the country's farmland has been dama...
+ Yale Environment 360: 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 natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy. However, rising power de...
+ Yale Environment 360: One in Five Gray Whales Entering San Francisco Bay Die There—As oceans warm and whale prey become increasingly scarce, gray whales have begun venturing into San Francisco Bay in search of food. But nearly one in...
+ Yale Environment 360: The Global Wildlife Trade Is Fueling the Spread of Viruses—Scientists have long known that deadly diseases, from HIV to SARS to Ebola, can begin in animals and spill over to people. But a new study is the firs...
+ Yale Environment 360: A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View—Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding ...
+ Yale Environment 360: A Shift to EVs Would Lower the Price of Gasoline, Study Finds—A broad shift to electric vehicles would benefit drivers of gas-powered cars by lowering the price of fuel. That is the finding of a new study, which ...
+ Yale Environment 360: 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 generate up to 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the city ...
+ Yale Environment 360: U.S. Biofuels Target Could Fuel Destruction of Tropical Rainforest—The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports, putting pressure on tropical ...
+ Yale Environment 360: Why Protecting Flowering Plants Is Crucial to Our Future—In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he expla...
+ Yale Environment 360: Trying Times: Keeping the Faith as Environmental Gains Are Lost—For people who came of age in the 1970s, it is especially painful to witness the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of hard-won environmental ...
+ Yale Environment 360: Dozens of New Species Discovered In Deep Waters Off Australia—Scientists have identified more than 110 new species discovered deep underwater beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Read more on E360 →
+ Yale Environment 360: Indonesian Mega-Farm Drives Surge in Deforestation—Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years last year, a jump driven in part by a sprawling effort to turn rainforest into r...
+ Yale Environment 360: 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 big boost to forest wildlife.Read more on E360 →
+ Yale Environment 360: 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 deadly pollution in Spain. Extreme weather can have knock-on effects in faraway plac...
+ Yale Environment 360: As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can't Break Its Coal Addiction—Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new ...