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A 35-year study of desert tortoises in Joshua Tree National Park underscores something that most desert biologists already strongly suspected: climate change will likely be a big problem for the southernmost populations of the desert tortoise.
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More than just disappearing polar ice caps, climate change has far-reaching consequences, such as increased rates of allergies, diseases, and even death.
Water scarcity presents a profound challenge and opportunity for designers of the built environment. "Where is it? Let's reuse it" recognizes that maximizing recovery and reuse of rain and stormwater will be central for any city seeking to buffer the e...
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The EPA has released a series of videos on everyday actions you can take to slow down climate change, aimed at those of us who haven't yet devoted our entire waking lives to worrying about the issue of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront Collective brings together a wide variety of partners from different sectors that collectively are shaping new methods for urban planning.
Doomed By Sunshine
Science proves that Angeleños are slackers, easily distracted, and barely rational. But that's okay, because it's not our fault. The problem is our climate.
Protestors at a No on Keystone pipeline event in November 2012.
It took him awhile to get to the point, showing how tentative his proposals are, how carefully couched his prescriptions.
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Los Angeles is on track to lose up to 40 percent of its snowfall in nearly four decades, according to a UCLA study released today.
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And it's predicted that California will be hard-hit.
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The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a record high Thursday, attaining a level the planet hasn't experienced for the last three million years, according to scientists.
A collection of Southern California artists are addressing climate change
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I've warned of the danger of human-created climate change since the early 1970s, so you might expect me to be completely on board with this analysis. I'm not.
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