California

'No, Secretary Zinke. Record-Breaking Wildfires in California Have Everything to Do with Climate Change'

With Crucial California Bill Back in Play, California Lawmakers Warned: Back Net Neutrality or "Feel Constituents' Wrath"

Julia Conley, staff writer

"California assemblymembers won't get a second chance and they need to decide immediately to either side with the public or be willing to pay the price for catering to big telecoms."

Continuing 'War on California' and Planet, Trump Makes First Move to Reopen State's Public Lands to Fracking

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

$Anti-fracking demonstrators$

"We desperately need to keep these dirty fossil fuels in the ground. But Trump...

Exploiting Climate-Fueled Disasters on Behalf of Logging Industry, Zinke Pilloried for Blaming Wildfires on 'Radical Environmentalists'

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Climate change, longer fire seasons, and way more people in the West all play...

With Climate Crisis Key Driver, Mendocino Complex Fire Now Largest Recorded in California's History

'Repugnant and Dangerous': Ignoring Role of Climate Crisis, Trump Offers Buffoonery on California Wildfires

Hottest July Ever Recorded in United States: California's Death Valley Busts Own Record

'Climate Change...In Real Time': California's Frightening Fires Are the Nightmare Scientists Long Predicted

In Victory for Workers Demanding 'Justice and Dignity,' Disneyland Employees Secure $15 Minimum Wage

Trump Medicare Chief Seema Verma's Attack on Medicare for All Full of Lies, Critics Say

Trump Takes Aim at California's Highly Successful Auto Emissions Standards

In 'Much-Needed and Significant Positive Step' for Democratic Party, Barbara Lee Announces Bid for House Caucus Chair

Advocates Applaud San Francisco's School Board Voting Rights for Non-Citizens as City Addresses Fears of Federal Response

How Billionaires Are Backing Charter School Push: AP

'She Won 7% of the Vote': In Rebuke to Feinstein, Progressive Challenger Kevin de León Receives Landslide Endorsement from California Democrats

With "Mountainous" Evidence on Plaintiffs' Side, Hundreds of Cancer Cases Against Monsanto Get Green Light

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See the Redwoods (Soon). And You Better Get to the Amazon Rainforest Too.

Bad news on all sides on our human propensity for taking without thinking. A new study finds researchers have "grossly underestimated" the impact on the Amazon rainforest of logging and other human activity, even as California park rangers combat a surge in nightime bandits - aka "midnight burlers" - poaching the burl from old-growth redwoods to sell for furniture. The tallest trees on earth, old-growth redwoods once covered almost 2,000,000 acres of California; today, less than 5% of that...