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A year after the L.A. Board of Supervisors voted to ban new oil and gas wells in the city, the City Council approved a plan to prohibit new wells while beginning to phase out existing ones.
Youth climate activists have criticized the COP26 pact for being "vague" and failing to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. For one activist, the disappointment with negotiations at the global level inspired him to focus his work more locally in Southern California.
For decades, communities of color have fought against unequal exposure to oil drilling and other environmental harms. Recent policies to phase out drilling and require buffer zones are victories, but the battle is still ongoing.
The mayor of Imperial Beach, California, says big oil wants him to drop the lawsuit demanding the industry pay for the climate crisis.
Drought, wildfires, extreme heat: California lawmakers cast climate change as the culprit in an emerging series of public health threats, setting aside billions to help communities respond. But they stopped short of more aggressively reducing the state’s share of the greenhouse emissions warming the planet.
While fighting their own respiratory health battles, environmental justice advocates are organizing communities to hold the mammoth oil and gas industry accountable for its impact on Southern California's most vulnerable populations.
Choreography and movement, engineering and the environment, and biology and architecture might have more to do with the concept of the body than we realize. UCLA professors Susan Foster, Jennifer Jay, Tracy Johnson, and Greg Lynn discuss "What is a Body?"
Students from all backgrounds offer their ideas on how to address sea level rise in their own communities throughout the Bay Area.
This environmental activist discusses environmental racism and cap-and-trade's failure to address marginalized communities.
Kidney failure in agriculture workers around the globe is a symptom of a warming planet.
Expensive lodging means many Californians must choose between going to the beach and putting food on their tables.
It's not just pipelines: Native people are disproportionately affected by energy development of all kinds. And they're fighting back.