Board of Supervisors approves an “all-of-government” approach to protecting public health amid rising temperatures.

Satellite imagery reveals how man-made structures, like breakwaters, accumulate sediment and enhance beaches.

The schism between Democratic environmental ideals and California voters' anxiety about affordability, notably gas prices, ...

The snowpack this winter is smaller than average in California's Sierra Nevada as well as the Rocky Mountains. The lack of snow reflects record warmth.

State water managers are predicting “big swings” between wet and dry weather, a sign of how a warming planet is making California’s natural cycle of drought to deluge more extreme. What to expect: The ...

For decades, Los Angeles has topped the list as the smoggiest city in the U.S., but now, climate change is fueling a new kind of pollution from toxic urban wildfires to heat-driven ozone and smoke ...

California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular ...

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