Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis
Oil and gas conglomerate Exxon Mobil could be a key player in global efforts to combat the climate crisis — if only governments would remove…
It’s time for a grand bargain to end California’s solar squabbling
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointees could vote next week on a widely criticized plan that climate activists, solar installers and labor unions say would pointlessly slow…
Climate change is a star in some of Hollywood’s most popular movies
I never saw the 2017 film “Justice League.” But if I had, I would have been treated to a scene in which Batman (Ben Affleck)…
Major shoe chain with 320 stores to close another site – and shoppers cry ‘It’s so hard to shop shoes online’
A MAJOR shoe chain with hundreds of UK stores is set to close another site. Shoezone is set to shut its store in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.1The…
Here are the 32 coal plants still powering the American West
Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S. Twenty-one down, 32 to go. Those numbers are based…
‘Another bites the dust’, major coffee chain with 2,000 UK branches to close city centre site for final time in weeks
A MAJOR coffee chain with 2,000 UK stores is set to close another city centre site within weeks. The chain has already shut the doors to…
What to know about California’s newest state park
On June 12, California will open its first new state park in nearly a decade, setting aside 1,600 acres near the confluence of the Tuolumne…
Disneyland will never be completed. Neither will healing the Earth
It didn’t take much for Eric Swenson to start a chain reaction that in less than two years would prompt the world’s most influential entertainment…
Third shipping channel opened at site of collapsed Baltimore bridge
1 of 2 | Officials in Maryland have opened a third shipping channel near the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.…
Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, explosions heard in Isfahan: Report | Politics News
BREAKINGBREAKING, ABC News reports missiles striking a target in Iran, with Iran’s state TV reporting explosions in Isfahan. Israeli missiles have hit a site in…
Changing our lives is scary. The climate crisis is way scarier
“I want you to stop changing your lives, OK? We’ve been conditioned to think that change is good and exciting, but what if it’s not?…
Repowering the West, Part 5!
In January 2020, I sat down with my editors at the L.A. Times office and pitched them on a series of stories that would eventually…
Chelsea in major stadium breakthrough as BlueCo COMPLETE controversial acquisition of 1.9-acre site
CHELSEA have made a major breakthrough in its mission to transform Stamford Bridge. BlueCo have completed the acquisition of a 1.9-acre site, which houses the…
Huge travel site reveals it's scrapping free nights perk leaving customers livid
Some holidaymakers have been left unimpressed by a change coming to the Expedia and Hotels.com loyalty schemes this summer that ends a huge perk Source…
Hurry up with the electric cars, Disneyland. There’s no time to waste
When I broke the news last week that Disneyland is planning to ditch gas engines and make a long-overdue switch to electric or hybrid cars…
Third body recovered from site of Baltimore bridge collapse
Officials in Maryland have recovered the body a third missing construction worker from the water around the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge…
L.A. City Council backs 520-unit apartment complex at Sportsmen’s Lodge site
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday backed a developer’s plans to replace the iconic Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City with a 520-unit residential complex…
Disneyland is ditching gas cars at Autopia. It’s a great first step for Tomorrowland
The air tastes putrid. The traffic is terrible. The engines are loud, the oil-stained roadways ugly and antiquated. This is Autopia, part of Walt Disney’s…
Shaheen Bagh, India’s citizenship law protest site, Delhi’s newest food hub | Food
String lights line the street and wafts of barbecue smoke fills the air as the evening envelopes Chaalis Futta Road in the Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood…
Meet the writers pitching Hollywood studios on climate change stories
Nicole Conlan writes jokes for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” But her master’s in urban planning from USC and her experiences growing up in…