Hayley Smith is an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she covers the many ways climate change is reshaping life in California, including drought, floods, wildfires and deadly heat. She previously worked on the breaking news team. Originally from Miami, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from USC.
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The Department of Water Resources has issued a caution advisory warning residents to avoid Silverwood Lake, due to harmful cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae.
May 8, 2024
With an average surface temperature of 59.05 degrees, the month was about 0.25 of a degree warmer than the previous hottest April, in 2016.
May 8, 2024
A late season storm dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on some regions of Northern California over the weekend, breaking a daily seasonal snowfall record for the Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab.
May 6, 2024
Campus police and Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at USC early Sunday morning to clear the camp.
May 5, 2024
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
State officials unveiled 81 targets to transform millions of acres in the Golden State into landscapes that can absorb more carbon than they release by 2045.
April 22, 2024
Giant sun shades, 40-foot-tall air filters, stratospheric sulfur injections: Here are some of the wild and wondrous ways we might save the planet.
April 22, 2024
With summer approaching, California is trying again to protect workers from heat, after an effort to implement a new safety measures was derailed last month.
April 19, 2024
Current conditions are promising, but L.A. must maintain its ethos of conservation and prepare for an inevitable return to dry times ahead, LADWP officials say.
April 15, 2024
With an average surface temperature of 57.45 degrees, last month was warmer than any previous March on record, according to European climate officials.
April 10, 2024