Days after President Joe Biden gave his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 15, the Bureau of Land Management approved oil ...

Una dieta constante de noticias no pudo haber evitado que los fuertes vientos de Santa Ana empujaran las llamas hacia el sur y luego hacia el oeste a través de Eaton Canyon, como tampoco los equipos ...

A steady diet of news couldn’t have kept the strong Santa Ana winds from pushing the flames south and then west through Eaton Canyon, any more than fire crews could have contained the fire’s early ...

How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous ...

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

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He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

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