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This week in science: a newly-discovered species, 'talking' dogs and a beluga's death
3 months, 2 weeks ago

This week in science: a newly-discovered species, 'talking' dogs and a beluga's death

NPR  

This week in science: a newly-discovered species, 'talking' dogs and a beluga's death NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about a newly discovered species in California's Mono Lake, dogs understanding words, and the death of a beloved beluga whale. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Time now for our regular science news roundup with our friends …

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As Los Angeles plans to take less water, environmentalists celebrate a win for Mono Lake
6 months, 3 weeks ago

As Los Angeles plans to take less water, environmentalists celebrate a win for Mono Lake

LA Times  

City leaders in Los Angeles have announced plans to take a limited amount of water from creeks that feed Mono Lake this year, a step that environmentalists say will help build on a recent rise in the lake’s level over the last year. “It’s a historic decision in the history of Mono Lake,” said Mark Gold, director of water scarcity …

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Cities’ thirst nearly killed these California lakes. Not so fast, said our epic wet winter
1 year, 4 months ago

Cities’ thirst nearly killed these California lakes. Not so fast, said our epic wet winter

LA Times  

PG&E crews travel by airboat in June to decommission power poles in a flooded pistachio orchard in Corcoran, Calif., which lies in the Tulare Basin. Maybe going forward, we should be a little more respectful and find ways to accommodate, to at least some degree, the coming back of these water bodies, and what they mean, not only spiritually and …

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Is it the beginning of the end for July Fourth fireworks?
1 year, 5 months ago

Is it the beginning of the end for July Fourth fireworks?

LA Times  

I’m Mariel Garza, deputy editorial page editor, filling in for Paul Thornton. But The Times’ editorial board said that with zoning reform and looser land-use laws, those struggling suburban strip malls and empty downtown office buildings present a tremendous opportunity for California to address one of its most pressing problems: the crippling shortage of housing that has driven up rents …

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Opinion: A wet winter began to replenish Mono Lake. L.A. should let it be a lake again
1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: A wet winter began to replenish Mono Lake. L.A. should let it be a lake again

LA Times  

Mono Lake rests under the snowcapped peaks of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. State regulators are considering a pause on water imports from the Eastern Sierra Nevada’s Mono Lake watershed to allow the fragile ecosystem to recover after decades of diversions to the L.A. Basin. After excessive diversions into the L.A. Aqueduct led to the infamous near-collapse of Mono Lake’s fragile …

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Wild horses spent the harsh winter at Mono Lake. Now they’re turning up dead
1 year, 7 months ago

Wild horses spent the harsh winter at Mono Lake. Now they’re turning up dead

LA Times  

The remains of a wild horse sit along the shores of Mono Lake on May 6. As multiple feet of snow finally melted around one of Mono County’s greatest attractions, U.S. Forest Service officials and volunteers found remnants of a large presence of wild horses — ones that typically range much farther east — that wintered around Mono Lake and …

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Letters to the Editor: Will L.A. break its promise not to destroy Mono Lake?
1 year, 9 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Will L.A. break its promise not to destroy Mono Lake?

LA Times  

Tufa towers rise along the shore of Mono Lake east of the Sierra Nevada in 2021. To the editor: In 1994, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the state of California and the Mono Lake Committee reached an agreement to end 16 years of litigation over water diversions by setting a target elevation for the surface of Mono …

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L.A.’s new water war: Keeping supply from Mono Lake flowing as critics want it cut off
1 year, 10 months ago

L.A.’s new water war: Keeping supply from Mono Lake flowing as critics want it cut off

LA Times  

Exposed tufa towers rise along the shore of Mono Lake in Lee Vining, Calif., in this 2021 photo. Adel Hagekhalil, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, told the water board in a letter recently that were Los Angeles to lose supplies “for whatever reason,” the MWD would “have to draw a similar amount of water from …

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L.A.’s quest for water leaves costly bill: Higher rates for customers, choking air pollution
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A.’s quest for water leaves costly bill: Higher rates for customers, choking air pollution

LA Times  

Even as worsening drought and aridification force Los Angeles to end its overwhelming dependence on imported water, Angelenos may soon realize that weaning themselves off supplies from the rugged eastern Sierra Nevada doesn’t mean they will stop paying for the city’s long, complicated history there. That’s because, even if the city is able to make good on a pledge by …

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As drought hammers Mono Lake, thirsty Los Angeles must look elsewhere for water
2 years, 8 months ago

As drought hammers Mono Lake, thirsty Los Angeles must look elsewhere for water

LA Times  

Passing clouds provide a striking backdrop for exposed tufa towers along the shore of Mono Lake in Lee Vining in the fall of 2021. “Twenty-eight April Firsts have passed since the state water board decision,” said Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, a nonprofit focused on protecting the ecosystem, “yet Mono Lake remains chronically and artificially low.” …

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These photos prove why a road trip to Tahoe in the off-season is worth it
3 years ago

These photos prove why a road trip to Tahoe in the off-season is worth it

LA Times  

Lake Tahoe is in limbo. Along Highway 395, the most common driving route to Tahoe from Southern California, I did see trees killed by the Tamarack fire but only on the 10-mile stretch between Wild Oat Mountain and Dead Horse Flat, Nev. What I mostly saw drawing nearer to Tahoe’s south shore was autumn splendor. About seven miles from the …

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Vexed by dust pollution, officials around Mono Lake call on Los Angeles to cease water diversions
3 years, 1 month ago

Vexed by dust pollution, officials around Mono Lake call on Los Angeles to cease water diversions

LA Times  

For those who live near the briny shores of California’s Mono Lake, October can be a dreaded month. “We’ve got a public health crisis on our hands,” grumbled Phil Kiddoo, enforcement officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, which oversees a battery of monitoring devices that help chronicle the dust storms rolling off Mono Lake this time …

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A century-old fight for tribal recognition simmers over the eastern Sierra Nevada’s Mono Lake
3 years, 10 months ago

A century-old fight for tribal recognition simmers over the eastern Sierra Nevada’s Mono Lake

LA Times  

In a fevered bid for wealth, white ranchers and gold miners began pouring into the remote Mono Lake Basin east of Yosemite in the 1850s, taking over the ancestral lands of Native Americans who had existed there from time immemorial. “Stress is an understatement,” said Charlotte Lange, 67, chairwoman of the tribe that despite being unrecognized maintains a tribal organization …

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