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    Jan 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Half of food produced worldwide is wasted, study finds

    Up to half of the food produced worldwide never makes it into a consumer's mouth, according to a new report.
    Up to half of the food produced worldwide never makes it into a consumer's mouth, according to a new report. That’s as much as 2 billion tons of grub that’s wasted, according to a study released Thursday by Britain's Institution of...

    Tags: Conservation, Science and Technology, Arable Farming, Natural Resources Defense Council, United Kingdom

  2. Jan 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Name change: California Department of Fish and Wildlife

    To Jared Huffman, the name "fish and game" was an outdated artifact of a bygone era when state officials mostly set hunting seasons and bag limits.
    To Jared Huffman, the name "fish and game" was an outdated artifact of a bygone era when state officials mostly set hunting seasons and bag limits. It no longer reflected the department's mission "to mange California's diverse fish, wildlife and plant...

    Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environmental Issues

  4. Dec 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Letters: Marijuana growers trash California's forests

    Re &ldquo;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/23/local/la-me-pot-enviro-20121223">Pot farms take dirty toll</a>,&rdquo; Dec. 23
    Re “Pot farms take dirty toll,” Dec. 23 Some years back I purchased a copy of biologist George Wuerthner's guide “California's Wilderness Areas: Mountains and coastal ranges.” As a Southern California native, I was not familiar...

    Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Environmental Issues

  6. Jun 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Market Watch: Plum-cherry hybrids find a sweet spot

    HANFORD, Calif. &mdash; Combining the high sugar and flavor of cherries with the larger fruit size and extended season of plums has been a longstanding dream for fruit breeders, but such crosses are difficult to make successfully so that the hybrids yield abundant high-quality fruit. <a href="http://www.davewilson.com/z_file/zaiger_intro.html">Zaiger's Genetics</a> of Modesto, the inventors of Pluots and Apriums, managed the trick, and the fruit started showing up several years ago in <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/06/of-pluots-apriums-and-cherubs-.html">very small quantities at upstate farmers markets;</a> this year vendors at local farmers markets have begun offering plum-cherry hybrids, and the first commercial orchard has started bearing fruit.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    HANFORD, Calif. — Combining the high sugar and flavor of cherries with the larger fruit size and extended season of plums has been a longstanding dream for fruit breeders, but such crosses are difficult to make successfully so that the hybrids yield...

    Tags: Pies and Tarts, Forestry and Timber, Genes and Chromosomes, Forests, Cherries

  8. Jul 1, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. California's piers: Enjoy their primal allure

    How was that little vacation you took? You remember. It cost you almost nothing, it burned some calories (or, after that ice cream cone, added a few) and briefly immersed you in quintessential California.
    How was that little vacation you took? You remember. It cost you almost nothing, it burned some calories (or, after that ice cream cone, added a few) and briefly immersed you in quintessential California. It was that walk on a pier, those structures that...

    Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Personal Service, Environmental Issues, Endangered Species

  10. Jul 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times Exclusive
  11. Even as climate change turns up the heat, we go on fracking

    In the midst of a broiling summer that is burning up crops and killing people, a lot of Americans, including most of the leaders of one of our two major political parties, do not think climate change is a problem. Like ostriches with their heads stuck in the tar sands, they want to go on fracking like there's no tomorrow.
    In the midst of a broiling summer that is burning up crops and killing people, a lot of Americans, including most of the leaders of one of our two major political parties, do not think climate change is a problem. Like ostriches with their heads stuck...

    Tags: Conservation, Science and Technology, Petroleum Industry, Global Warming, Environmental Issues

  12. Jul 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  13. Plan calls for more than 10,000 homes at Great Park

    L.A. NOW
    Thousands of new homes could be built along the perimeter of a former Marine base in Orange County that officials envision being turned into one of the nation’s great urban parks, according to a proposal being considered by city officials in Irvine....
  14. May 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Jean Craighead George dies at 92; children's author

    After children's author Jean Craighead George revealed that she wanted to write a book about a girl who talks with wolves, legendary book editor Ursula Nordstrom reportedly asked one question &mdash; will it be accurate? &mdash; and most certainly knew the answer.
    After children's author Jean Craighead George revealed that she wanted to write a book about a girl who talks with wolves, legendary book editor Ursula Nordstrom reportedly asked one question — will it be accurate? — and most certainly knew...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Wildlife, Environmental Issues, New York Public Library, Arts and Culture

  16. Jun 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. In pursuit of the Yucatan Peninsula's gray ghosts

    Welcome to the end of the road. If you're going to Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, it stops here, near the tip of a long, skinny peninsula about 100 miles south of Cancun. Scrub jungle encroaches on the village, fishermen wait for the opening of lobster...

    Tags: Trout, Forestry and Timber, Petroleum Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, United Nations

  18. Jun 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. WWDC 2012: Apple Maps, Photo Stream and FaceTime better in iOS 6

    Finally, we can stop cursing the limitation of Maps, FaceTime and Photo Stream. Apple on Monday announced some sweet updates for iOS 6 at its developers conference, WWDC.
    Finally, we can stop cursing the limitation of Maps, FaceTime and Photo Stream. Apple on Monday announced some sweet updates for iOS 6 at its developers conference, WWDC. For Maps, it's (as expected) bye-bye, Google, and hello, 3-D flyovers and turn-by-...

    Tags: Apple iPad, Wildlife, Apple iPhone, Social Media, Apple iCloud

  20. Jun 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. WWDC 2012: Apple's Mountain Lion makes Mac more like the iPad

    Your MacBook may soon be more like a supercharged iPad.
    Your MacBook may soon be more like a supercharged iPad. At the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple showed off eight of the 200 new features of its latest operating system, Mountain Lion, that will be making that happen. For example, Messages, the...

    Tags: Apple iPad, Wildlife, Apple iCloud, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Environmental Issues

  22. Jun 13, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. Elinor Ostrom dies at 78; first woman to win Nobel in economics

    Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political economist who in 2009 became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics by demonstrating that local communities can manage imperiled natural resources as well as or better than the government or private business interests, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday in Bloomington, Ind., according to the university. She was 78.
    Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political economist who in 2009 became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics by demonstrating that local communities can manage imperiled natural resources as well as or better than the government or...

    Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Conservation, Science and Technology, Entertainment Events, Social Sciences

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