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PIXLEY, CA - MAY 20: Dairy cows feed at a farm west of Pixley, CA in Tulare County. Some town residents believe their health problems are owed to air pollutants from the nearby dairy facilities. The topography of the San Joaquin Valley contribute to the region's poor quality trapping dirty air from traffic on Interstate 5, State Route 99, locomotives and farming pollutants including open burning and emissions from dairy cows. Photographed in Pixley, CA on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Number of California dairy herds infected with H5N1 bird flu rises to 17

With 17 dairy herds in California now infected with bird flu, the state is upping its surveillance.
FILE - In this photo provided by the National Park Service is the Abyss Pool hot spring in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., in June 2015. Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this year belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los Angeles who died in July, park officials said Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. They said they don't suspect foul play in the man's death but also didn't provide any more details. (Diane Renkin/National Park Service via AP, File)

Yellowstone visitor scalded in thermal pool hot enough to burn people to death. She broke the Pledge

Sept. 19, 2024
In this photo provided by Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun, a python coils itself around Arom Arunro's torso, squeezing her down to the floor of her kitchen in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun)

Huge python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her for hours before she can be freed

Sept. 19, 2024
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 -- An area of the drying Kern River where dead fish are counted and logged in, while environmental groups are engaged in lawsuits that seek to require flows in the river to continue throughout the year in Bakersfield, Calif., Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2024. (Gary Kazanjian / For The Times)

‘It’s really sad’: River dries up abruptly in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish

Sept. 19, 2024
Palm Desert, CA - September 13: Two Sandhill Cranes named Nile and Daphne Crane, who have arthritis, are among nearly 50 animals evacuated from the Big Bear Zoo due to smoke from the Bridge Fire to The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. The Big Bear Alpine Zoo, which is being threatened by the Line fire, has evacuated its animals to the Living Desert in Palm Desert. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A California zoo, an advancing wildfire and a delicate rescue operation

Sept. 18, 2024

Endangered frogs threatened by California wildfires once again. A rescue could be in order

Sept. 15, 2024

California reports a total of eight H5N1 bird flu outbreaks among dairy herds

Sept. 13, 2024

A huge deposit of marine fossils found under San Pedro High School

Sept. 13, 2024

Puppy pipeline: How we reported the story

Sept. 12, 2024
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Inside California’s brutal underground market for puppies: Neglected dogs, deceived owners, big profits

A Times investigation has found that truckloads of dogs from profit-driven mass breeders pour into the state from the Midwest, feeding an underground market where they are resold by people claiming to be small, local home breeders.

Sept. 12, 2024

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