President Joe Biden’s ban on the importation of Russian crude has ignited both hope and frustration in California’s dusty oil country.
Louis Sahagún
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Can a fragile rat survive the loopholes in endangered species protections?
Conservationists rejoiced when California declared the San Bernardino kangaroo rat an endangered species. The celebration was short-lived, however.
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Can lithium cure what ails the Salton Sea?
Proposals to suck lithium from the brine of geothermal operations at the Salton Sea have raised hopes of new jobs and environmental improvement.
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California builds a ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect wildlife from extinction by fire and heat
As the Earth warms and the drought deepens, a network of biologists and conservationists are racing to rescue California’s most threatened species. “I can’t think of a single terrestrial ecosystem that’s not being stressed to the limits of its physiological tolerance right now,” one biologist says.