L.A. Times - Environment

After years of debate between fire officials seeking total vegetation removal within the first 5 feet of homes and ecologists backing selective landscaping, California proposed a compromise.

As Los Angeles homeowners proceed with rebuilding from the 2025 fires, a new trend is emerging across the Palisades and Eaton burn areas. Emergency orders allow "like-for-like" replacements; some residents are moving toward all-electric home rebuilds.

Emergency federal actions are underway to save Lake Powell as the Colorado River crisis intensifies.

Used electric vehicle sales increased 20% in the first quarter this year compared to last as prices at the pump continue to climb.

Before and after images of the Sierra Nevada snow show the early decline in California's snowpack. Statewide snowpack levels sit at 20% of their historical average.

A new study out of UCLA shows the outsized impact of climate-related disasters like the 2025 fires on unhoused populations.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has released a new climate change plan for Los Angeles, setting goals for solar energy, EV chargers and water recycling.

The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it could lead to a warm, humid and stormy summer.

How much planet-warming methane is coming from water reservoirs? Environmental groups want California to track emissions.

A study finds that 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with just 6.4% of species not involved in trade.

Commercial salmon fishing is set to resume along the California coast this spring for the first time since 2022. Fishery regulators plan to allow a fishing season with strict catch limits.

A recycler in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries for a century and there is still lead in people's yards after a decade of cleanup.

The nutria, an invasive rodent plaguing California, may have been deliberately released. Wildlife experts have a theory on how they got here

Visitors to the Aquarium of the Pacific can now get an up-close look at Meatloaf, a rescued green sea turtle undergoing rehabilitation after a serious flipper injury, according to officials.