Between 197,000 and 874,000 city residents could experience a foot of flooding during an extreme storm, scientists found. Most of them don’t live in beachfront mansions.
Confronted by devastating wildfires, parching drought and ever-hotter summers, Los Angeles is launching an ambitious plan to combat climate change by becoming the first major U.S. city run entirely on clean energy. But it won’t be easy.
The drought is pummeling many of California's varied agricultural industries particularly hard, as farmers and ranchers contemplate a future without - or with much less - water.
Despite regulatory powers that in some ways are stronger than the state's, LA has been slow and inconsistent in forcing the industry to take responsibility for its leaky legacy, according to a Los Angeles Times/Public Integrity investigation.
Shade in Los Angeles sits at the intersection of two crises: climate change and income inequality. City officials are rushing to deploy cover to hundreds of bus stops and plant 90,000 trees.
