Boiling Point

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have traditionally valued the river as a living part of them.

Indigenous fire practices are slowly regaining wider acceptance in California, but the dream of burning freely based on the needs of the land is still a long way off.

At the Hammer Museum’s biennial Made in L.A. exhibition, anxieties around climate change and environmental degradation pervade recent work.

During the recent government shutdown, it appeared that public lands were operating as if business was as usual. In reality, the Trump administration may have been preparing for a new, more extractive approach to managing these wildlands.

Reporting on California’s wildlife is fun, but there’s plenty of controversy. Case in point: A battle over a plan to kill hundreds of thousands of West Coast owls.

Thanks to federal policy changes, the U.S. electric vehicle market is in disarray. Whether it is facing an existential threat, however, remains to be seen.

Some water utilities are run by elected leaders, others aren’t. Research shows utilities with elected managers tend to deliver more affordable drinking water.

State leaders have long understood Northern California’s wildfire crisis and are investing resources to solve it. But in Southern California, the problem is more confounding.

I’m not done telling stories about climate. And neither are my wonderful friends and colleagues.

To replace a 40-year-old Utah coal plant, Los Angeles is investing in green hydrogen.

Solar and wind companies need to start punching back.

Here’s what the the Legislature passed last week — on electric bills, renewable energy, oil refineries and more.