The world just got closer to an ocean-saving treaty
NICE, France — The race to save the world’s oceans is on. The United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice, France ended Friday with promises from world leaders to ratify a...
Environment
Female Hotshot firefighter brings California mega blazes to life in moving memoir
Fire changes whatever it encounters. Burns it, melts it, sometimes makes it stronger. Once fire tears through a place, nothing is left the same. Kelly Ramsey wasn’t thinking of this...
Pressure is mounting for soil testing post-fire cleanup. The Newsom administration is downplaying the concerns
Elected officials in California are calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing on properties destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires,...
Trump signs laws to kill California auto emission standards. California AG sues
President Donald Trump signed legislation seeking to rescind California’s ambitious auto emission standards, including a landmark rule that would’ve eventually barred sales of new gas-only cars in California by 2035....
Justice Department says Trump can undo national monuments; California areas could be on list
President Trump has the authority to abolish national monuments set aside by past presidents to protect areas of historic and scientific interest, the Justice Department said in an opinion this...
Seven reality checks on Britain’s sunshine spending review
LONDON — For a politician who spent the last year warning of a “black hole” in the public finances and doling out misery, Rachel Reeves was practically popping corks. The...
Contributor: When an unnatural heat wave kills, has Big Oil committed murder?
Who, if anyone, is responsible when a person dies from unnatural heat? And what does the law have to say about it? As a prosecutor for over a decade working...
State composting law took aim at greenhouse gases. Illegal dumping was a byproduct
Lancaster — A California law aimed at reducing the amount of climate-harming greenhouse gases at landfills is exacerbating the problem of illegal dumping in the Antelope Valley, according to local officials and...
Salton Sea is emitting foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas, triggering health concerns
On scorching days when winds blow across the California desert, the Salton Sea regularly gives off a stench of decay resembling rotten eggs. New research has found that the shrinking...
Scientists studying ‘artificial’ aerial sphere claim it came with a social justice message
Researchers in Colombia say they have studied an “artificial” sphere that was filmed floating through the air and is engraved with a message to humanity. The mysterious metallic sphere was...
