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Trees provide myriad benefits. They capture stormwater runoff, replenish groundwater and slow the deterioration of streets. They clean the air and improve mental health.
Children are more vulnerable than adults to extreme heat, but at too many California schools authorities just aren’t moving with urgency to protect them from a fast-warming climate.
With forecasts calling for warmer-than-average temperatures across California this summer, officials in Los Angeles are vowing to do more to protect residents from extreme heat, one of the deadliest consequences of human-caused climate change.
Officials had known for decades that the Pajaro River levee that failed this weekend was vulnerable but never prioritized repairs in part because they believed it did not make financial sense.
A quake as strong as magnitude 8.2 is possible on the southern San Andreas fault and would bring disaster to all of Southern California simultaneously, with the fault rupturing from near the Mexican border to Monterey County.
Marta Segura, who serves as director of Los Angeles’ Climate Emergency Mobilization Office in the Department of Public Works, was given a second title this month: chief heat officer, the city’s first.
Just one flood could unleash a flow of industrial chemicals and overwhelm a working-class, mostly Latino community.
The proposal marks an early agreement by the governor and lawmakers to spend more than half of the $1 billion in wildfire funding.
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