A much-ballyhooed study on habitat and extinction may mean increased peril for California desert species -- not because of the science, but because of how it's being reported.
You wouldn't think that something like sand would be vulnerable to human activity, but the great system of sand rivers and dunes actually faces significant threats from the way we behave.
Building developments in the Inland Empire and San Diego County are going up in terrain that is prime kangaroo-rat habitat. That puts the endangered rodent in a precarious situation.
In the West, Republicans have been gunning for the Endangered Species Act since it was enacted in 1968 and targeting the Wilderness Act (1964) even longer.
It's now been nearly a month since the April 20 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, rig sinking, marine and wildlife catastrophe, and presumed death of eleven men. What does TTLA's Crescent City correspondent say?