Environmental News

Just 10 miles off the coast of Los Angeles lurks an environmental disaster over 70 years in the making, which few have ever heard about. That is, until now, thanks to the research of a University of California marine scientist named David Valentine. 

By enhancing your backyard echo system, you can provide a refuge and a resting place for birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Fill your yard and garden with the sights and sounds of nature.

Thursday: While drought conditions won’t allow a super bloom, you can still enjoy the state’s wildflowers this season.

Any time you make a garden, Tree of Life Nursery founder Mike Evans says it’s important to ask yourself what kind of story you are trying to tell.

National resolution recognizes native plants that help birds, pollinators and other wildlife to thrive.

People became concerned about the monarch’s plight and nursery wholesalers began growing lots of tropical milkweed for Southern Californian gardeners decades ago. 

Flowers are unpredictable – and finding what’s happening when is part of the thrill, although there is a predictable cycle to the order of blooms.

Local gardeners set an example with their certified wildlife habitat.

Native plants are obviously happy with local climates and soils. Otherwise, they would not be native. They had been living here long before the first landscapes. They survived without irrigation, fertilizer or any maintenance. 

Hot crude and oily waste bubbled up from underground, filled an apartment building basement, oozed out of manhole covers and buckled sidewalks. More than 130 low-income tenants were evacuated.