Los Angeles
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Researchers mapped L.A.’s emissions with incredible detail. Is your city next?
A new project shows the emissions from every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area.
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How urban ‘heat islands’ threaten public health
In built-up cities like Los Angeles, higher temperatures threaten lives.
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The water empire: How a Korean family became the source of drinking water for many Angelenos
In L.A., water stores do brisk business.
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Garbage is a dirty business. L.A. is trying to clean it up.
Los Angeles tries to make the garbage industry better for workers and better for the environment.
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Sorry, Beverly Hills: You get a subway now
A federal judge just ruled that wealthy NIMBYs couldn’t block a proposed metro extension.
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82,000 Californias have fled a crazy, out-of-control wildfire
The Blue Cut fire outside San Bernadino went from spark to raging inferno in just one day.
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Ripping out lawns could have unintended consequences
In L.A., replacing grass with drought-tolerant plants could change the city’s temperature.
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After mega-heatwave, Los Angeles faces mega-wildfire
After two days, only 10 percent of the fire was contained.
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Toxic battery plant has to tell its 12,000 neighbors they might get cancer
The plant has close to four years to reduce cancer-causing arsenic emissions.