- — 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 orders allow "like-for-like" replacements; some residents are moving toward all-electric home rebuilds.
- — 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.
- — 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.
- — 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.
- — 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 historical average.
- — 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.
- — 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.
- — 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 and stormy summer.
- — 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
- — 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.
- — 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.
- — 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 fishing season with strict catch limits.
- — 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.
- — 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
- — 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 flipper injury, according to officials.
- — 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 two other big for-profit electric companies on wildfire prevention.
- — 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.
- — 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 wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower.
- — 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.
- — Photos from the dark side of the moon by Artemis II
- Artemis II marks NASA's first return to the moon with astronauts — a critical step toward a lunar landing by another crew in two years.
- — L.A.'s history-making wolf lands in Eastern Sierra. Miles pile up as she seeks forever home
- A wolf arrived in Inyo County on Sunday morning, marking the first of her kind in the area in at least 100 years. It was the same wolf that had visited L.A. County.
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