Because trees can cool cities by providing shade and evaporating water into the atmosphere, greening city streets is an often ...

Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows. They have been particularly lethal in parts of California where landscape, climate, we ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...

Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires. John Mills, the app’s creator, wants it to be the one place ...

Orange County communities built on hillsides are preparing for a powerful winter storm to move through Southern California. Sandbags and tarps have been laid out in some areas to protect slopes from ...

Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity – a ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Assemblymember Damon Connolly has introduced a bill to place the state’s greenhouse gas reduction targets into law. In 2022, ...

The toll might not have been as bad if extra engines had been pre-positioned much closer to the most fire-prone areas, former ...

A specialist from t Fire Department has walked all over a large chunk of the city’s north side and tied thousands of tags to piñon and juniper trees in recent months, envisioning a new landscape. A ...

Obsidian’s latest take on the open-world role-playing formula leans into the genre’s best elements and leaves the fluff ...