Climate
It’s time for the night trip to the beach — the grunion are running
Thousands of small, silver fish will wash up on California beaches to perform a strange and wondrous mating ritual.
Anger grows in Boyle Heights as warehouse fire leaves stench, flies and vermin in its wake
Boyle Heights activists are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to order a mandatory evacuation of the neighborhood, saying a recent warehouse fire has poisoned the air.
Can we predict deadly cliff collapses along the California coast? Scientists say it’s possible
Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that it is possible to predict a coastal landslide hours, sometimes days, before it happens.
Top fashion has a problem with extreme heat as productivity falls
A grid of about 800 sewing machines whirs, rows of hissing irons let out clouds of steam and hundreds of workers move across a production floor at a vast clothing manufacturing facility in eastern India, some using laser-guided cutters to slice through giant rolls of fabric.
China climate plan pushes renewables in factories, data centers
China, the world’s largest source of climate-warming greenhouse gases, plans to more deeply integrate its massive renewable power fleet into factories, data centers and transport in a new plan that lays out more detail on its emissions-cutting strategy through 2030.
Trump administration OKs California company’s plan to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert
The California company Cadiz has been trying for years to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert. The Trump administration approved a plan for a pipeline.
Trump administration erodes marine protections, invites more fishing
Trump administration invites commercial fishing in protected areas
‘I’d rather my house burn down than get cancer’: Herbicide use upends California’s fight to save forests
A U.S. Forest Service plan to use glyphosate in a burned forest spurs a reckoning in Tahoe: How much should people do to bring forests back?
Not everyone is leaving California — new commercial battery maker sets up shop in Sacramento
A factory in Sacramento will be first in the country to make a new alternative to lithium-ion at commercial scale.
Environmental justice group sues California over carbon market overhaul
The lawsuit claims that California’s air regulator rushed changes to its signature cap-and-invest program without proper environmental review.