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A whale breaches close to the Harbor Breeze Cruises La Espada whale watching boat off the coast of San Pedro selection of Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

How humanity’s ear-splitting racket deafens whales and other marine animals

Industrial activity has added up to 15 decibels of noise to the Santa Barbara Channel, new research has found. Hear the difference.

May 5, 2024
LANDERS, CA - APRIL 23, 2024: Rattlesnake wrangler Danielle Wall carries a Mojave rattlesnake from a container to return it to its natural habitat on April 23, 2024 in Landers California. The snakes have to be returned within a two mile radius of where they were first rescued. Wall rescued 257 snakes last year. She is the premiere snake wrangler in the high desert.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Joshua Tree’s celebrity rattlesnake wrangler wants to change how you see reptiles

May 5, 2024
A lone quail stands next to a male turkey

Opinion: What a quail taught me about grief by joining a flock of turkeys

May 3, 2024
Huntington Beach, CA - April 20: The sunset illuminates one of thousands of creatures known as by-the-wind-sailors that have been washing ashore Southern California beaches, including Dog Beach in Huntington Beach Thursday, April 20, 2023. The oval-shaped, flat creatures with tiny blue tentacles may look like little jellyfish but are in fact hydroids called Velella velella, more commonly known as "by-the-wind sailors." The invertebrates have been washing ashore at Crystal Cove in Newport Beach, and the sailing bodies have been spotted as far north as Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. They've also been spotted in San Clemente, Manhattan Beach and along other Southern California beaches.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

What are the blue blobs washing up on SoCal beaches? Welcome to Velella velella Valhalla

May 3, 2024
This combination of photos provided by the Suaq foundation shows a facial wound on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, on June 23, 2022, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on Aug. 25, 2022, after his facial wound was barely visible. (Armas, Safruddin/Suaq foundation via AP)

A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

May 2, 2024

How a ‘death trap’ for fish in California’s water system is limiting the pumping of supplies

May 2, 2024

Canny as a crocodile but dumber than a baboon — new research ponders T. rex’s brain power

April 29, 2024

L.A. supervisors oppose plan to eradicate Catalina deer by shooting them from helicopters

April 27, 2024

Mosquito season is upon us. So why are Southern California officials releasing more of them?

April 25, 2024
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File photo of a Southern California Steelhead trout. Southern California steelhead trout have been listed as endangered by the state. Environmental advocates say there is still hope the fish can recover.

Climate & Environment

Steelhead trout, once thriving in Southern California, are declared endangered

Southern California steelhead trout have been pushed to the brink of extinction as their river habitats have been altered by development and fragmented by barriers and dams.

April 23, 2024

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