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The Republican presidential candidate wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60%. He also pledges to press India and China to make cuts.
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Endangered tortoises airlifted from an Army base face other threats. >>
Backers say it gives new life to the proposed Foothill South extension. But fish and game officials say further permits are needed, and environmentalists call the accord insignificant. >>
Great tits adjust their breeding season so that chicks hatch when winter moth caterpillars -- their main food source -- are most plentiful, long-term research shows. >>
The inland settlement, about 14,000 years old, predates the Southwestern Clovis sites by about a millennium and coincides with findings at Paisley Cave in Oregon, researchers say. >>
The birds were endangered by DDT in the '70s. Now, scientists have found that falcons in cities including Los Angeles contain record-high levels of flame retardant. >>
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Fishing guide Bob Caffey says Diamond Valley Lake is the 'premier holdover lake in the southern half of the state, and it keeps getting better.' >>
A Montana judge refuses a delay that the federal government requested. Environmental and animal rights groups want to put gray wolves back on the endangered species list. >>
A team will study the value of adding land from the Rim of the Valley Corridor, but such a review could take years. >>
A brush fire began raging across Griffith Park on May 8, 2007, and scorched 1,200 acres before firefighters put it out. The park has been steadily making a comeback. "What we are in agreement about is to let nature do its thing . . . however long it takes," said Michael Shull, the superintendent of planning and development for Los Angeles' Recreation and Parks Department. "I don't think anybody's in any rush that it's not coming back fast enough." A progress report: >>
The increasingly bold animals have attacked 2 toddlers, in Lake Arrowhead and Chino Hills. >>
Activists and builders OK a conservation plan for the sprawling property in Kern and L.A. counties that would permit some development. >>
More than 500 lawsuits in California and 19 other states over groundwater fouled by the gasoline additive are resolved. >>
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Books: science and environment
 The destruction of Lisbon by a major earthquake in 1755 and its repercussions in Enlightenment Europe. May 11.
A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs. May 11.
On a millennial path with a caribou herd in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. April 27.
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