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MOUNT BALDY, CA - SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 - Asst. Chief Shawn Cate, right, and his crew with Mount Baldy Fire Department, survey the damage to homes from the Bridge fire along Bear Canyon Road in Mount Baldy on September 12, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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DEA agents fanned out across the United States Wednesday, culminating a six-month investigation with the primary goal of dismantling the upper echelon of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and hoping to get closer to capturing its leader, one of the most wanted men in America, Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera. There's a $10 million reward for the arrest of him. Photos of him and methamphetamines recently confiscated was displayed at a news conference at the DEA San Diego office.

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FILE This Oct. 12, 2009 photo shows a petri dish with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA) cultures at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, England. The U.S. toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials said Tuesday, July 12, 2022. After years of decline, the nation in 2020 saw a 15% increase in hospital infections and deaths attributed to some of the most worrisome bacterial infections out there, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

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PACOIMA, CA - AUGUST 16, 2024 - Luis Tortes, 28, talks about his past year and a half of living homeless underneath State Route II8 in Pacoima on August 16, 2024. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Caltrans workers cleaned up homeless encampments a few blocks away along Paxton Street and Remick Avenue on August 8, 2024. The homeless didn't return to area of the clean-up, but many were living in encampments under the nearby San Fernando Valley freeways. Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened on Thursday, August 8, to take away state funding from counties that don't show improvement on homelessness. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Ojai, CA - June 10: Laura LaRue at home with her 16-month-old daughter Lasca on Monday, June 10, 2024 in Ojai, CA. Laura, 32, is a single-mom and former model raising her daughter in a former school bus. She went from living in a cabin on her mom's ranch to an off-grid trailer in Carpinteria, to a school bus with a newborn baby. During the pandemic, she started her natural tie dye business, Ride or Dye Ojai. "It's very chill and it's not that crazy at all," she says of the baby-proofed bus. "It's baby heaven." (Ryan Schude / For The Times)
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Visalia, CA - October 12: Water flows from an underground well to irrigate an orchard on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 in Visalia, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES-CA-AUGUST 29, 2024: Students including Wyatt Gaines, right, water the green onion, basil and kale seedlings they planted in the garden at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on August 29, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 24: Cimate Change Activist/Essayist Alyssa Jaipersaud poses for a portrait at Exposition Park Rose Garden on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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El Monte, CA - August 27: Michael Isaac Yabara, a young climate change activist, stands for portraits at Whitter Narrows on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024 in El Monte, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 05: Reies Flores, a career and technical education agriscience teacher walks through the gardens during an after school "Web Club" at Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Teachers Reies Flores and Arturo Romo run a campus-based farm and sustainable arts program rooted in climate knowledge. More than a decade in the making, the farm now has cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fruit trees, native plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, etc. on a slice of land wedged between railroad tracks and the high school football field. There is farm-to-table cooking, composting, animal husbandry, greenhouse sciences, habitat restoration, and coordination with the cafeteria to reduce food waste across the campus. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Some L.A. teachers, tired of waiting, are creating their own climate curriculum

LOS ANGELES-CA-AUGUST 29, 2024: Students including Wyatt Gaines, right, water the green onion, basil and kale seedlings they planted in the garden at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on August 29, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 05: Student Michelle Chan, 16, holds baby turkeys during an after school "Web Club" at Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Teachers Reies Flores and Arturo Romo run a campus-based farm and sustainable arts program rooted in climate knowledge. More than a decade in the making, the farm now has cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fruit trees, native plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, etc. on a slice of land wedged between railroad tracks and the high school football field. There is farm-to-table cooking, composting, animal husbandry, greenhouse sciences, habitat restoration, and coordination with the cafeteria to reduce food waste across the campus. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Welcome to the farm where cows, pigs and sheep are part of the climate curriculum

Silver Lake, CA - June 04: Fifth grade teacher Brittany Jefferson teaches at her Jefferson Citizens of the World Charter School class on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Silver Lake, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Lessons in (fifth-grade) chemistry: Earth ‘has a fever’ from burning fossil fuels

LAWNDALE, CA - JUNE 27, 2024 - Eddie Cortes, a horticulture specialist and groundskeeper at ECHS, right, eats a freshly picked cumquat as students Jasmin Rodreiguez, left, and Julian Garcia, both 16, prepare to eat there's at the Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale on June 27, 2024. Cortes was talking about the high vitamin C content in the cumquat grown on campus. The high school is a sustainable campus with fruit trees, which the students have planted, chickens and a hyper-environmental curriculum. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

‘Social justice and equity are built into everything we teach’

El Segundo, CA - July 18: Science Desk Intern Noah Haggerty holds cards as he plays with other environmental reporters an environmental board game at Los Angeles Times Headquarters on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in El Segundo, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 21: Edward Humes in the Los Angeles Times Portrait Studio at the Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

How can we save ourselves from drowning in garbage?

LOS ANGELES-CA-APRIL 19: Senior activist David Rosenstein, with Their Act, seated in a rocking chair attends a climate rally and march with Ann Bartz (2ndL) Jeff Olmstead (C) and Monica Sena at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday April 19, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/For The Times)

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A man walks at a second hand clothes dump site at the Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, on November 15, 2023. Kantamanto market is vast, spanning over 20 acres in the heart of Accra's business district, its stalls dominated by used clothing and shoes from the West and China. Its traders import a staggering 15 million garments a week, according to the OR Foundation environmental group. But roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, they say, dumped in landfills and often washed into the ocean, causing a public health crisis and harming the environment. Ghana became the world's largest importer of used clothing in 2021, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data site, with garments worth $214 million shipped mostly from China, the United Kingdom and Canada. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Can anything slow fast fashion down? Lawmakers are giving it a go

Los Angeles, CA - August 28: Stop motion shoot in the office for fast fashion at Los Angeles Times building on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

The great paradox in retail: Great prices but bad-for-the-planet fast fashion

Women search for used clothes amid tons discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, on September 26, 2021. EcoFibra, Ecocitex and Sembra are circular economy projects that have textile waste as their raw material. The textile industry in Chile will be included in the law of Extended Responsibility of the Producer (REP), forcing clothes and textiles importers take charge of the waste they generate. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

The fast fashion mountain of shame is real

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Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘It’s almost shameful to want to have children’

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Brentwood, CA, Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Josiah Edwards leads a group Sunrise Movement protesters near VP Harris' Brentwood home calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Climate warriors fighting some of the ‘greatest crises humanity has ever seen’

TOPSHOT - This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) hurling soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (La Joconde) painting, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024. Two protesters on January 28, 2024 hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said. It is the latest attack on the masterpiece in the French capital's Louvre museum, after someone threw a custard pie at it in May 2022, but it's thick glass casing ensured it came to no harm. (Photo by David CANTINIAUX / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by DAVID CANTINIAUX/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

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A worker applies paint to a section of a decommissioned wind turbine blade at the Canvus manufacturing facility in Avon, Ohio, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. To keep turbine blades from piling up in landfills, startups like Canvus are turning them into new products and free marketing for wind power. Photographer: Brian Kaiser/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How to navigate the green economy: Here are four success stories

Los Angeles, CA - April 29: Avroh, Maya and Maryam, left to right, are three young plaintiffs who have sued the EPA, and poses for a portrait near the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where a hearing for the lawsuit took place on Monday, April 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

For these California kids, the fight against climate change is personal

SOUTH PASADENA-CA-JULY 16, 2024: Fabienne Hadorn, co-founder of Arroyo Nature School, an outdoor-based program for preschool-aged kids, left, reads to the children in South Pasadena on July 16, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Children are stuck inside, glued to screens. Are ‘forest schools’ the antidote?

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LOS ANGELES-CA-SEPTEMBER 6, 2024: Actress Toks Olagundoye, who plays Olivia Finch on Paramount+'s "Frasier," is photographed at Potted in Los Angeles on September 6, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, of Japan, watches the ball as he hits a home run scoring Hunter Feduccia during the third inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Shohei Ohtani moves closer to 50-50, but Dodgers lose to Marlins

Shohei Ohtani hit his 48th homer (to go with 48 steals), but another poor outing by Bobby Miller sank the Dodgers.
Los Angeles, CA - September 07: USC head coach Lincoln Riley coached during a game against Utah State in the USC home opener at the LA Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. USC won 48-0. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Jordan Chiles, right, joyously shows off her bronze medal next to Simone Biles

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 17: Diana Taurasi #3 of the Phoenix Mercury controls the ball against Kia Nurse #10 of the Los Angeles Sparks in the second half at Crypto.com Arena on September 17, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

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Orange County, California September 10, 2024- A house burns from the Airport Fire in El Cariso Village along Ortega Highway Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Photos: Fires ravaging California after heat wave

SAN CLEMENTE, CA SEPT. 6, 2024 - Hawaiii's John John Florence is carried off the sand after beating Brazilian Italo Ferreira during the Lexus WSL Finals at Lower Trestles in San Clemente on September 6, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

John John Florence and Caitlin Simmers crowned as surfing’s world champions in Lexus WSL Finals

Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday, September 1, 2024 - USC Trojans defensive end Lorenzo Cowan (37) makes a confetti angel on the field after a 27-20 win over the LSU Tigers in the Modelo Vegas Kickoff Classic at Allegiant Stadium. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Photos: USC opens season with thrilling victory over LSU in Las Vegas

PARIS, FRANCE July 28, 2024-USA battles for gold and silver medals in the epee at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France Sunday(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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A capacity crowd cheers the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris at the conclusion of the DNC.

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Police officers inspect a car inside of which a hand-held pager exploded, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of pagers mysteriously explode in Lebanon; Hezbollah blames Israel

Thousands of people were wounded across Lebanon in what was thought to be a cyberattack causing pagers carried by Hezbollah members to explode.
A firefighter stands near debris along a business street in the aftermath of Typhoon Bebinca in Shanghai, China, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Chinatopix Via AP)

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KOTA BUNGA, INDONESIA-AUG. 26, 2024-Cahaya, 27, who requested to use a pseudonym, was first married at age 14 to a boy from her village. When he divorced her three years later, she turned to temporary contract marriages with Arab tourists to make money. Kota Bunga, a resort in near Indonesia's Puncak mountain pass, is a popular travel destination for tourists from the Middle East. It is also well known as a place for contract marriages with Indonesian women, who collect the dowries as a means of income. (Kaleb Sitompul / For the Times)

Sex tourism in Indonesia sells itself as Islamic temporary marriage

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