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The following map highlights local events where you can play a part in building and sustaining your community’s urban tree canopy.
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There’s nothing like going native if you want to minimize problems and reduce water use.
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So you’ve decided to plant a tree. Before you start digging, there are a few things you should consider to maximize its payoff.
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Live in Los Angeles? If so, you can use this interactive map to determine how much tree canopy cover your city council district has.
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Trees cover an estimated 20.9 million acres of urban land in the continental United States.
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We’ve all heard about people released from prison because they were wrongfully convicted.
Kim Prince, owner of the Hotville Chicken stands for a portrait with tables and chairs from the closed indoor dining area of her restaurant at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw in Los Angeles, California, November 24, 2020. | PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
Citing soaring COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Los Angeles County imposed tightened health restrictions Monday, including a ban on most gatherings and strict capacity limits on most businesses, while forcing closures of playgrounds and card rooms.
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Southern California will fall under sweeping new health restrictions Sunday evening due to the rapidly increasing number of hospitalizations from the coronavirus.
A fence with barbed wire. | iStock via Getty Images
More than 7,500 prisoners sent home in the program — which aims to slow the spread of COVID-19 — would have been released within months anyway. Thousands with health conditions remain in prison, and the virus keeps spreading.
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Latinas are bearing a disproportionately high burden from the COVID-19 pandemic in San Diego County, a local nonprofit and Latina elected officials said Tuesday as they shared data from the San Diego Association of Governments.
Governor Gavin Newsom looks on, far right, as ICU nurse Helen Cordova receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on December 14, 2020. | JAE HONG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive-care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles today received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19.
Walk-ins wait for Coronavirus Covid-19 testing in LA County at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles on July 8, 2020. | Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
COVID-19 infection rates are notably higher in communities with high poverty rates than in more affluent areas, according to an analysis of ZIP code and city data for California’s 12 most populous counties.
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