Most recent 10 articles: Los Angeles Times
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Tribe signs pact with California to work together on efforts to save endangered salmon - Los Angeles Times (May 4) |
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A California tribe has signed agreements with state and federal agencies to work together on efforts to return endangered Chinook salmon to their traditional spawning areas upstream of Shasta Dam, a deal that could advance the long-standing goal of tribal leaders to reintroduce fish that were transplanted from California to New Zealand more than a century ago and still thrive there.
Members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe have long sought to restore a wild salmon population in the McCloud River north of Redding, where their ancestors once lived. The agreements that were signed this week for the first time formally recognize the tribe as a ... Read more ...
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How Spanish-language climate misinformation spreads like wildfire in the US - Los Angeles Times (Apr 13) |
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Disinformation about the climate crisis has never been hard to find in English, but it’s even more pervasive and less moderated in Spanish-language media. Compared with Twitter, Trump and other famously prolific disseminators of English-language misinformation, the sources in Spanish are less predictable, more global and all but unchecked.
A recent report commissioned by GreenLatinos and Friends of the Earth found that a majority of U.S. Spanish-language climate disinformation last year originated in Spain. The propaganda often coincided with extreme events such as the country’s 2022 forest fires.
Over the last few weeks, the ... Read more ...
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How Spanish-language climate misinformation spreads like wildfire in the US - Los Angeles Times (Apr 13) |
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Apr 13 · Get notifications on Breaking News.
Disinformation about the climate crisis has never been hard to find in English, but it’s even more pervasive and less moderated in Spanish-language media. Compared with Twitter, Trump and other famously prolific disseminators of English-language misinformation, the sources in Spanish are less predictable, more global and all but unchecked.
A recent report commissioned by GreenLatinos and Friends of the Earth found that a majority of U.S. Spanish-language climate disinformation last year originated in Spain. The propaganda often coincided with extreme events such as the country’s 2022 forest fires.
Over the last few weeks, the ... Read more ...
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Watch the rebirth of California's ‘phantom' Tulare Lake in striking before-and-after images - Los Angeles Times (Apr 6) |
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A once-mighty body of water is rising again in Central California.
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River and was last full in 1878. It was mostly drained in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as its tributaries were dammed and diverted for agriculture.
In recent weeks, after relentless storms, once-depleted rivers are roaring from the Sierra Nevada into the valley, spilling from canals and broken levees into fields as the phantom lake reemerges.
These satellite images from NASA show the farmland west of Corcoran, a town of around 22,000, before and after flooding.
In 1983, ... Read more ...
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California's race against time to build power lines - Los Angeles Times (Apr 6) |
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Want to live in a world where heat waves stop getting hotter, wildfires stop getting bigger, water shortages stop getting more severe and storms stop getting more destructive?
Then you should probably cozy up to electric power lines.
Solar panels and wind turbines take up a lot of the oxygen in conversations about clean energy solutions. But for solar and wind to supply ever-larger amounts of electricity - and replace the coal, oil and natural gas cooking the planet - the United States will need a lot more transmission lines, to carry renewable electricity from the nation’s sunniest, windiest places to the big cities that suck up ... Read more ...
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California Deluge Impacts Linger - Los Angeles Times (Mar 25) |
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For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the eastern Sierra Nevada.
But earlier this month, record storms accomplished the unthinkable when floodwaters undermined a 120-foot-long section of aqueduct in Owens Valley, causing its concrete walls to crumble.
“We’ve lost the aqueduct!” a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power inspector told his superiors by cellphone. As he spoke, chocolate-colored runoff and debris undercut the aqueduct just west of Highway 395 and the community of Olancha.
It ... Read more ...
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What happened in Pajaro isn't just a ‘natural' disaster - Los Angeles Times (Mar 14) |
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In the last few years, California has experienced extreme wildfires, heat waves and the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic. What has become abundantly clear, particularly from the ravages of the pandemic on low-income communities of color, is that disaster risk is not an equal-opportunity affair.
The latest evidence of this came this past weekend as the Pajaro River levee failed and flooded a small town populated mainly by migrant workers and their families. In an eerie coincidence, the levee failure occurred on March 12, 95 years to the day the St. Francis Dam catastrophically failed because of a defective foundation and other design ... Read more ...
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Restore California's floodplains to capture more stormwater, protect human life - Los Angeles Times (Mar 14) |
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The southern Sierra Nevada is covered with the deepest snowpack in recorded history, and the rest of the range is not far behind. When all that snow melts, where will it go?
You can read the answer in the landscape of the Central Valley. To the eye it is nearly flat, covered by layers of gravel, silt and clay washed from the mountains over the eons by rain and melting snow. Amid the flatness are gradual slopes down to the valley’s center, where the Sacramento River creates a watery vein in the north and the San Joaquin River does the same in the middle. Once - before the late 19th century, when newcomers began to drain the land and ... Read more ...
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Who profits from Southern California's high gas bills? The problem is we don't know - Los Angeles Times (Mar 13) |
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Mar 13 · The doubling and in some cases quadrupling of Southern Californians’ natural gas bills in recent months stemmed from rapid price spikes in the so-called spot market, a real-time wholesale market for the fuel. The lack of transparency in California’s spot market for gasoline played a similarly major role in the pummeling California drivers took at the pump last year.
The secrecy surrounding transactions in both of these markets keeps the public in the dark about who is making a fortune off their pain. Transparency would not only reveal the profiteers but could also discourage future gouging.
Southern California Gas Co., the monopoly that provides gas in Southern ... Read more ...
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