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Los Angeles County health officials announced that seven geese and a heron have tested positive for avian flu, marking the first time the disease has been detected in the county …

SIERRA PAILEMAN, Argentina —  It was a sunny morning when about 200 people trudged up a hill in southern Argentina’s Patagonia region with a singular mission: free two Andean condors that …

SAN FRANCISCO —  After a summer of national and global climate devastation, Vice President Kamala Harris made a stop at the Cowell Theater on Tuesday to tout Democrats’ progress on climate …

Work to protect the railroad tracks on an unstable slope in San Clemente is now expected to stop all passenger train service between San Diego and Orange counties through at …

FORT MYERS, Fla. —  Florida has seen an increase in cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year driven largely by a surge in the county hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. The state …

“You wanna take mine or yours?” That was Kylie Jenner’s caption for a July Instagram post that showed her and boyfriend Travis Scott in the middle of a make-out sesh …

A nearly two-decade effort by Californians to cut their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide may have been erased by a single, devastating year of wildfires, according to UCLA and University …

This is the Oct. 20, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get …

Conservationists have long warned that Southern California mountain lions could vanish within decades due to inbreeding and loss of habitat. Now, biologists have identified another threat that could hasten their …

After temperatures across Southern California hit the mid-90s on Wednesday, a cooldown and possible showers in parts of the region are expected this weekend. It was a hot Wednesday with …