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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

All he is saying is give brush a chance

California | Local | By Joe Mozingo | November 26, 2008
Rick Halsey is in search of senile shrubs. Read more
 

Friday, October 3, 2008

Spreading a belief in urban forests

California | Local | By Martha Groves | October 3, 2008
As an adolescent, Andy Lipkis had to breathe steam each day at his Baldwin Hills home to soothe his lungs. Read more
 

Friday, August 15, 2008

Environmental groups sue federal agencies over San Onofre toll road

California | Local | By Susannah Rosenblatt | August 15, 2008
A coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit this week claiming that U.S. wildlife agencies violated endangered species protections in their support of the proposed toll road through San Onofre State Beach. Read more
 

Friday, August 8, 2008

Tarp that covers wetlands angers environmentalists

California | Local | By Bob Pool | August 8, 2008
Environmentalists were elated when the state made a blanket decision to save an all but extinct coastal plant. Read more
 

Friday, July 11, 2008

Small research center provides a global window

World | By Chris Kraul | July 11, 2008
High on a jungle hilltop, at a unique research center in the middle of the Panama Canal, scientists are studying three-toed sloths, howler monkeys and jungle flora to better understand evolution and the practical effects of global warming. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

It’s full stream ahead for Lower Owens They’re watching the river grow

California | Local | March 11, 2008
As blizzards whipped across nearby High Sierra peaks, ecologist William Platts lifted off in a helicopter here and headed north, about 1,000 feet above a river that looked as if it were throwing a tantrum. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Plan to ‘flush’ Grand Canyon stirs concerns

National | March 4, 2008
The Grand Canyon is about to take a bath, and National Park Service officials who oversee the natural wonder are worried. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Russian oil tanker spill said to cause ‘ecological catastrophe’

World | November 13, 2007
More than 30,000 birds and countless fish have been killed in an ecological catastrophe” wrought by thousands of tons of oil from a tanker that broke apart in a heavy storm near the Black Sea, the governor of the region said Monday. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Prairie’s demise linked to CO2

Science | By Alan Zarembo | August 28, 2007
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be contributing to the conversion of the world’s grasslands – crucial for livestock grazing – into a landscape of useless woody shrubs, according to a study released today. Read more
 

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

THE NATION - Nation in Brief / TEXAS - Flooding creates ‘dead zone’ in gulf

National | August 1, 2007
Fresh water pouring into the Gulf of Mexico after weeks of flooding in the state has created an oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that threatens sea life, a researcher said. Read more
 

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

THE NATION - Nation in Brief / OREGON - Dead zone returns to coastal waters

National | July 31, 2007
For the sixth year in a row, a fish-killing dead zone of oxygen-depleted water is forming off the Oregon coast, raising the possibility it could become the new pattern as the climate warms, scientists said. Read more
 

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

`Dead zone’ off Louisiana may expand

National | July 17, 2007
Researchers predict that the oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that recurs off the Louisiana coast will expand this summer to 8,543 square miles – its largest area in at least 22 years. Read more
 

Thursday, July 5, 2007

George Skelton | CAPITOL JOURNAL - Kiss a frog if you like but don’t mess with our trout

California | Local | By George Skelton | July 5, 2007
This column is about rainbow trout and yellow-legged frogs. Read more
 

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Delta on the brink, panelists warn - Democrats urge action on the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary and assail water managers for failing to better protect imperiled smelt.

California | Local | By Eric Bailey | July 3, 2007
A congressional panel warned Monday that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the state’s key crossroads for water exports to Southern California, teeters on the verge of crisis. Read more
 

Sunday, May 20, 2007

A new lay of the land at Pepperdine

California | Local | By James Ricci | May 20, 2007
From atop Pepperdine University’s hilly seaside campus, Californians’ changing approach to the local landscape is dramatically apparent. Read more
 

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Native plants could bounce back, or disappear

California | Local | By Deborah Schoch | May 12, 2007
Thousands of hungry goats roamed Catalina as recently as a decade ago, gobbling every green leaf and shrub in sight, the island’s de facto brush clearance program. Read more
 

Sunday, February 25, 2007

First warmer, then sicker

Science | By Jia-Rui Chong | February 25, 2007
Oysterman Jim Aguiar had never had to deal with the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus in his 25 years working the frigid waters of Prince William Sound. Read more
 

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Structured for New Orleans

Home & Garden | By Nancy Yoshihara | September 14, 2006
IS tradition-bound New Orleans ready for some modernist housing? Read more
 

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

PLAGUE OF PLASTIC CHOKES THE SEAS

California | Local | By Kenneth R. Weiss | August 2, 2006
The albatross chick jumped to its feet, eyes alert and focused. Read more
 

Sunday, July 30, 2006

A Primeval Tide of Toxins

California | Local | By Kenneth R. Weiss | July 30, 2006
The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. Read more
 
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