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Tourists visit the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Nov. 1, 2022. The Colorado River flows through the literal giant chasm in Arizona. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Are Separated by a ‘Giant Chasm’ in Negotiations

By Alex Hager, KUNC

California voters cast their ballots at the Joslyn Park voting center on Tuesday in Santa Monica. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow

Mark Carrington exits his golf cart to look out on Lake Tamarisk, a man-made lake in Desert Center, Calif., on May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

As Solar Booms in the California Desert, Locals Feel ‘Overburdened’

By Wyatt Myskow

Western monarchs feed on Pacific aster nectar while overwintering in the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Credit: Barry Bergman

Record-Breaking Heat Waves Add to Risks for Western Monarchs

By Liza Gross

Flor Olvera gives a pamphlet to resident Emma Garcia while canvassing for Rudy Salas, a Democrat running for California's 22nd Congressional District, in Wasco on Aug. 24. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

In Competitive Purple Districts, GOP House Members Paint Themselves Green

By Marianne Lavelle, Liza Gross

Blue flames rise from the burner of a natural gas stove in Orange, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

California Cities Planned to Shut off Gas in New Buildings, but a Lawsuit Turned it Back On. Now What?

By Twilight Greenaway

Children play soccer next to active oil wells in Los Angeles County’s Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the nation. Credit: Gary Kavanagh

California Governor Signs Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Oil and Gas Drillers

By Liza Gross

Plastic waste piles up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach, California, on Dec. 13, 2022. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Alleging Decades of Lies, California Sues ExxonMobil Over Plastic Pollution Crisis

By James Bruggers

CalFire manages a prescribed controlled burn in Northern California on Nov. 14, 2023. Wildfire prevention, among other climate solutions, is on the state's ballot as Proposition 4. Credit: Penny Collins/NurPhoto via Getty Images

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

Sprinklers water a lettuce field in Holtville, California on Feb. 9, 2023. The agriculture sector uses about 80 percent of the state’s consumed water. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images

The Key to Fix California’s Inadequate Water Storage? Put Water Underground, Scientists Say

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

Sonia Sanchez, a notary in Buttonwillow, California, has helped organize local opposition to a proposed carbon storage project in Kern County. Credit: Joshua Yeager/KVPR

Proposals to Build California’s First Carbon Storage Facilities Face a Key Test

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

Residents flee Green Valley Lake, California, under a mandatory evacuation order as the Line Fire burns through the San Bernardino National Forest on Sept. 10. Credit: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

‘Weather Whiplash’ Helped Drive This Year’s California Wildfires

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

A commuter wears a “slightly satiric” gas mask in Los Angeles in 1966. By the 1940s, smog from vehicle exhaust had gotten so bad that the county formed the nation’s first air pollution control district. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

California Slashed Harmful Vehicle Emissions, but People of Color and Overburdened Communities Continue to Breathe the Worst Air

By Liza Gross

Michael Katrutsa walks through rows of tomatoes on his 20-acre produce farm in Camden, Tennessee. His crops also include sweet corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, peppers, cucumbers, okra and more. Credit: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout

As Climate Threats to Agriculture Mount, Could the Mississippi River Delta Be the Next California?

By Cassandra Stephenson, Illan Ireland and Phillip Powell, Tennessee Lookout

A hiker admires the sunrise view from near the Mount Whitney summit after a scary scamper along a narrow rock ridge. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

Can the ‘Magic’ and ‘Angels’ That Make Long Trails Mystical for Hikers Also Conjure Solutions to Environmental Challenges?

By Bing Lin

A firefighters extinguishes flames near State Road 172 as the Park Fire burns on Aug. 7 in Mill Creek, California. Credit: Ethan Swope/Getty Images

In the Park Fire, an Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Destruction

By Sarah Hopkins

UC Berkeley students participate in a class at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Emeryville, California. Credit: Thor Swift/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

New Grant Will Further Research to Identify and Generate Biomass in California’s North San Joaquin Valley

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo) talks about her bill to reaffirm local governments’ authority to regulate oil and gas production at a rally outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Monday. Credit: Last Chance Alliance

California Climate and Health Groups Urge Legislators to Pass Polluter Pays Bills

By Liza Gross

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