Coastal Restoration

A new generation of scientists have uncovered barrels containing DDT, a toxic pesticide banned decades ago, dumped into the deep ocean.

A $4.5-million land deal, brokered by Portland-based environmental group Western Rivers Conservancy, will transfer a 1,199-acre parcel of wilderness along the Little Sur River to the tribe in the name of conservation and cultural resilience.

The Mendocino County town of Fort Bragg considered changing its name, which honors Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, after the death of George Floyd.

Covid-19 forced the event online, but, Hayes says, “There is simply no substitute for a billion people in the streets—and right now, that is against the law."

A former EPA chief, Ruckelshaus quit his U.S. Justice Department job rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's order to fire a Watergate special prosecutor.

August 2019 was the planet's second warmest August since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and NASA on Monday.

Fifty years after the Santa Barbara oil spill, we can trace how that crisis shaped California institutions, attitudes and relationships with the environment.

The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area exists because of the dogged advocacy of three local conservationists, known locally as the "mothers

The Camp fire lay waste to the city of Paradise and other mountain towns where many residents received no warnings and gridlocked evacuation routes became fire traps. Residents watched as neighbors and loved ones died. Others tried to outrun flames, their shoes melting as cars burned around them.

A boat is arriving in Ventura Harbor, wrapping up a trip from the Channel Islands which was more than 20 million years in the making. As Santa Barbara

If you live in Los Angeles, change is a guaranteed part of the bargain. But if you had to sum it all up, would you say L.A. is getting better or worse?

An original Rosie the Riveter, who worked the production line until age 95, visits Chula Vista where it all began

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.

Air quality officials said the high pollution readings were a result of intense heat combined with stagnant weather conditions.

Lee este artículo en español aquí. The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy. It’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history.

"Behind the aloha vibe was the other vibe — a locals-only, whites-only vibe,” said Sharon Schaffer, the first African American female pro in the U.S.

Malibu has long been associated with cars full of beachgoers and staggering cliffside mansions — but there’s much more to these “21 miles of scenic beauty.”

A state of disaster is declared as the Italian city is hit with a high tide of more than 1.87m.

Archeologists believe that Hasankeyf, Turkey's history began 11,000 years ago. Today, a dam reservoir will soon place the town deep underwater.

Built in 1936, it was one of only a handful of Bay Area projects by the renowned architect Richard Neutra.

It was the largest loss of U.S. Navy ships during peacetime in history, and it occurred right in our backyard, near Point Conception. A navigational error

Brazil's National Museum once held thousands of years of heritage. Now all that's left of Latin America's largest natural history museum, once home to 20 million artifacts, is smoldering debris. Nick Schifrin reports how the tragedy has also drawn anger at the government.

William F. Liebenow, who was buried Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, never liked to brag about rescuing John F. Kennedy when the future president and his PT-109 crew were stranded on a Pacific Island.

As residents whose homes were threatened by the deadly Carr Fire in Redding begin to return home, the Mendocino Complex Fire in Lake County grew again overnight to become the largest wildfire in California's history, officials said.