drought
Will partisan politics squelch the strongest water advocate in Southern California?
June 4, 2021Climate change remains a thing and Los Angeles remains governed, as always, with intense political maneuverings surrounding that most vital elixir of them all—water.
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Fighting for breath by the dying Salton Sea
December 19, 2017The children of North Shore are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, whose sudden illnesses warn of a greater disaster to come.
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The Panoche Hills: the strange sere bones of an ancient landscape
October 13, 2015A reflection on the dry landscape and living history of the Panoche Hills: It is austere, it is dry, it is dramatically beautiful.
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California landscape scorched as wildfires blaze on
September 15, 2015With 700,000 acres burned so far this year, there's no end in sight for the inferno; or firefighters and victims, the numbers represent an uphill battle.
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Accumulation of greenhouse gases a “planetary emergency”
August 19, 2014If eloquent words and scientific data don't move you to be a better steward of this fragile place we call Earth, then make it personal.
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