Fossil fuel ads are rampant in American sports. That’s not good
Less than half a mile from the California Capitol, the Sacramento Kings play basketball in a solar-powered arena that the team’s owner says has helped…
Gov. Newsom has good climate bills on his desk. Will he sign?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t be the next president of the United States. But the bills piled on his desk in Sacramento could help determine…
Double delight as rare supermoon AND partial lunar eclipse set to grace skies – when and where to see them revealed
STARGAZERS are in for a double delight next week as September's supermoon coincides with a partial lunar eclipse.The rare twin event is set to occur…
Why I skipped the presidential debate and went to a Dodgers game
I didn’t watch the presidential debate on Tuesday night. As usual, I was at Dodger Stadium.Also as usual, climate change was on my mind.During the…
Young climate voters were tired of Biden. They’ve embraced Harris — mostly
Wei Zhou moved to the United States from Cambodia at age 13, leaving behind a Southeast Asian nation ravaged by worsening droughts and floods. By…
‘Golden age of alien hunting’ has begun say group of scientists expected to be ‘first to know’ about ET discovery
A HIGH-powered telescope nestled in the remote wilderness may hold the key to finding extraterrestrial life.The Green Bank Telescope became the first radio astronomy telescope…
Boeing’s Starliner astronauts to return from space next year, NASA says | Space News
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says bringing astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth on faulty Starliner is too risky.Two NASA astronauts who flew…
Can AI dream up a more sustainable Los Angeles?
“Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well.”So says the ghost of an old woman…
NASA to decide on how to bring home stranded astronauts by end of the month | Space News
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stranded after problems emerged with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.NASA has said it will decide by the end of the month…
Don’t worry, it was only the second-hottest month ever
Great news: July 2024 was not the hottest July in recorded history.Indeed, last month was a whole 0.04 degrees cooler than July 2023. It was,…
Hidden ocean on Mars found that ‘could cover entire planet with a mile of water’ and ‘should be able to sustain life’
WATER that could cover Mars with a mile-deep ocean has been found beneath the red planet's surface, scientists says.Evidence for an enormous reservoir of liquid…
Reckless Chinese rocket launch leaves huge cloud of dangerous space junk that ‘poses a significant hazard’, experts warn
DANGEROUS space junk left by a Chinese rocket launch threatens to hit future space crafts at lightning speed, experts have warned.A Chinese Long March 6A…
As California broils, Montana doubles down on coal
Most of the country is phasing out coal power. Montana is trying something different.The state’s largest electric utility, NorthWestern Energy, was already planning to acquire…
Activists, celebrities urge Dodgers to dump Big Oil advertiser
What do Emmy Award-winning actor Kyra Sedgwick, the Rainforest Action Network, the Doors’ former drummer John Densmore, acclaimed climate activist Bill McKibben and “Anchorman” director…
Check out the TV shows nudging people to act on climate
The whole scene lasted just over a minute. The crucial dialogue, not even 15 seconds.But when a character from HBO’s “Sex and the City” ordered…
Change change, the everything story
A week ago Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. Then Monday was hotter.I was on vacation, hiking near the headwaters of the…
NASA has beamed the Missy Elliott hit ‘The Rain’ to Venus
Temperatures on Venus hover around 870 degrees, but the second-closest planet to the sun got a little bit cooler recently when NASA showered it with…
Why Los Angeles can’t afford to go third on clean energy
“Utilities race to be second. And sometimes it’s better to be third.”So said Fred Pickel, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s in-house ratepayer…
Don’t listen to the Dodgers Foundation. Big Oil is no All-Star
Much of America’s collective consciousness is focused on Major League Baseball this week, as the game’s brightest lights gather in Texas for the All-Star Game.…
US space agency NASA releases Webb telescope photos of entwined galaxies | Space News
NASA releases photos of two entangled galaxies to mark two-year anniversary of James Webb Space Telescope.The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released…