Southwest faces threat of megadroughts
Threat curbed if only humanity can reduce greenhouse gases
DATE: Oct 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Alicia Chang
California island foxes removed from endangered species list
LOS ANGELES – Not long ago, foxes native to the Channel Islands off the California coast teetered on the edge of extinction.
They have rebounded to the point where U.S. wildlife ...
DATE: Aug 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Craft will target Jupiter’s secrets
LOS ANGELES – Swirling storms. Dusty rings. Glowing polar lights.
Glimpses of Jupiter have been beamed back by robotic explorers since the 1970s. Most visits were brief, and onl...
DATE: Jul 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
California oil-spill cleanup costs reach $62 million
Costs are running at $3 million a day, and there is no timetable for when the cleanup will be complete, Plains All American Pipeline’s on-scene coordinator, Patrick Hodgins, told The Associa...
DATE: Jun 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Vaccine shows benefits beyond measles
Virus can weaken immune system for up to 3 years
DATE: May 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
California sets ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions
LOS ANGELES – Building on California’s ambitious effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called on the state to further slash its carbon footprint over the nex...
DATE: Apr 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Scientists convinced of tie between earthquakes and drilling
LOS ANGELES – With the evidence coming in from one study after another, scientists are now more certain than ever that oil and gas drilling is causing hundreds upon hundreds of earthquakes a...
DATE: Apr 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Don’t get rattled, but you may be in a quake zone
LOS ANGELES – More than 143 million people in the Lower 48 states now live on shaky ground, earthquake scientists say.
That’s because more people have moved into the quake-prone W...
DATE: Apr 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
How bad is California’s drought?
LOS ANGELES – The stubborn drought gripping California is dragging into a fourth year, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to call for mandatory cutbacks in water use across the state. The drastic ac...
DATE: Apr 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Dawn begins for mission to dwarf planet
NASA craft to photograph Ceres, largest object in asteroid belt
DATE: Mar 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Craft nears dwarf planet
PASADENA, Calif. – A NASA spacecraft is about to reach the end of a nearly eight-year journey and make the first rendezvous with a dwarf planet.
The Dawn craft will slip into orbi...
DATE: Mar 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
NASA still hoping to test flying saucer
LOS ANGELES – NASA hopes to try again to launch a “flying saucer” into Earth’s atmosphere to test Mars mission technology after losing the chance because of bad weather, project managers sai...
DATE: Jun 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
