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California Gov. Gavin Newsom walks between trees to be planted during a Clean California event in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California wants to harness more than half its land to combat climate change by 2045. Here’s how

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
TRACY CA APRIL 6, 2024 - The Heirloom Direct Air Capture plant which pulls CO2 from the air, the nation's first commercial carbon capture facility on Saturday, April 6, 2024 in Tracy, Calif. (Paul Kuroda / For The Times)

New scientific interventions are here to fight climate change. But they aren’t silver bullets

April 22, 2024
JANESVILLE, CALIF. - AUG. 18, 2021. The setting sun is obscured by burned trees and a pall of smoke from the Dixie Fire near Janesville, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. The wildfire has burned more than 1,100 square miles, destroyed 659 homes and is only about 30 percent contained. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds

April 22, 2024
Anaheim, CA - March 11: Visitors at Autopia in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Environmental activists Zan Dubin and Paul Scott, not shown, recently filed a complaint about air pollution and noxious smells from Autopia with Southern California air quality regulators at Disneyland in Anaheim Monday, March 11, 2024. They want Disneyland to convert Autopia to electric vehicles, and to find other ways -in Tomorrowland and across the park - to bring clean energy into its storytelling. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Column: Disneyland just promised electric cars at Autopia. Gas will be gone by 2026

April 19, 2024
People enjoy a late afternoon stroll along the shoreline at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, Calif. on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. Unseasonably warm temperatures continue to blanket the Bay Area. (Photo by Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Explosive levels of methane have been detected near a Berkeley landfill-turned-park

April 11, 2024

And the heat keeps coming: Global temperature record broken for 10th month in a row in March

April 10, 2024

Why this year’s average California snowpack is no reason for celebration

April 6, 2024

Sensor network shows EVs are reducing CO2 emissions in the Bay Area. Is it enough?

April 4, 2024

L.A. County faces $12.5 billion in climate costs through 2040, study says

April 4, 2024
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