Author: Tom Bady

El aumento de las temperaturas está llevando la red eléctrica de California a sus límites… otra vez. Los meteorólogos dicen que el calor extremo arrasará el estado esta semana, dando inicio a lo que se espera sea la ola de calor más larga del año. El norte de California, el Valle Central y los desiertos del suroeste, en particular, se están preparando para temperaturas peligrosas durante el fin de semana festivo extendido del 4 de…

SACRAMENTO – En un amplio plan presupuestario que la Legislatura de California aprobó el miércoles por la noche se incluyó una exención de último minuto de la histórica ley ambiental del estado que los propios legisladores se otorgaron. En lo que dijeron que era una medida de reducción de costos, los demócratas presentaron un proyecto de ley para eximir una renovación del Capitolio estatal por valor de 1.100 millones de dólares de la Ley de…

Mientras California busca mejorar su capacidad para capturar y almacenar aguas pluviales en todo el estado, hay al menos un importante propietario de terrenos públicos que está exento de tales esfuerzos: el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles. El distrito escolar, uno de los mayores propietarios de bienes raíces en el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles, posee más de 3200 parcelas de tierra que ocupan más de 10 millas cuadradas combinadas, un área que casi…

A major heat wave expected in California during the week of July 4 is already prompting heat warnings for much of the state, with triple-digit temperatures predicted and little relief overnight. Forecasts are still being developed for how extreme and widespread the heat will be, but weather officials are confident that inland California will see several days of dangerously hot conditions, expected from Tuesday through at least Friday. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA,…

Signs of the H5N1 avian influenza virus have been detected at three wastewater sites in California’s Bay Area, according to sampling data. While positive sewage samples have been found in seven other states, California is the only one that has yet to report an outbreak of bird flu in a dairy herd. Genetic evidence of bird flu was detected in San Francisco wastewater on June 18 and 26. Additional H5 “results” were detected at a…

A palm oak in the Jurupa Valley is estimated to be between 13,000 and 18,000 years old. The plant, which looks like a sprawling dark green bush, is now at the center of a battle over its development. (Aaron Echols) JURUPA VALLEY, California — After a contentious five-hour public meeting, environmental advocates have persuaded Inland Empire officials to delay development of a project within 400 feet of one of the oldest known plants in the…

At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Jessie George and other paleobotanists (people who study ancient plants the way paleontologists study prehistoric bones) are compiling a list of native California plants that survived the Ice Age and to the first major climate change in the region and that are still alive today. Researchers believe we have a lot to learn from these resilient plants that adapted after millennia of severe temperature changes, droughts and…

Beavers are a very precious object for the indigenous tribe of the Tule River. They are part of the stories of the California tribe and appear in ancient pictographs painted by their ancestors on the walls of a rock shelter in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But when nine of the furry rodents recently slipped out of their cages and into the waterways of the Tule River reserve, they returned to a habitat where they had…

This week, 13 young Hawaiian plaintiffs were taking the state Department of Transportation to court for failing to make real progress in reducing planet-warming pollution. Instead, on the eve of their court date, the young men signed a groundbreaking agreement with Hawaii’s governor and ushered in a new phase of climate litigation. The resulting agreement will accelerate Hawaii’s progress toward a zero-emission transportation system and could serve as a roadmap for other advocates looking to…

A Southern California environmental group is suing the U.S. Forest Service for allowing bottled water company BlueTriton Brands to draw water from the San Bernardino National Forest. The nonprofit group Save Our Forest Assn. filed the lawsuit in federal court, arguing that the Forest Service violated federal law by allowing the company to continue piping water from wells and water tunnels in the San Bernardino Mountains. The environmental group said the extraction of water, which…