Articles by The Los Angeles Times

For 60 years, the fossil fuel industry has known about the potential global warming dangers of their products. 

Recycling plastic is a good thing. However, stopping the cycle — and the plastic waste — before it starts is better.

Given how many plastic products we buy every day, it’s hard to think about cutting plastic out of your life.

You can’t call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still bringing your lunch to work in single-use sandwich bags or wrapping bowls with plastic.

Back home in Silver Lake, we experimented with going plastic-free for about six weeks. How hard could it be, right? This is central Los Angeles, where plastic straws rank with cigarette butts as a social taboo.

A new crop of stores are offering a zero-waste alternative.

They’re called refill stations. You bring your empty containers and fill them back up.

Lasagna mulching is kind of a miracle, the closest thing to an easy fix for lousy garden soil, suppressing weeds and rebuilding our disappearing topsoil.

We’ve made a list of 10 garden chores that can help save your sanity now and make the coming months much more pleasant.

There’s nothing mysterious about making compost. It’s just a mixture of stuff we usually toss.

There’s the old saying that you should never discuss politics or religion in polite company. Nowadays, it seems climate change has joined that list.

Humankind has dragged its feet for so long on the looming crisis of climate change that it is no longer looming but is upon us, and will be impossible to undo.

Yet even as the wealthy nations drive the world toward ecological disaster, it is clearly the poor countries that will face the gravest consequences and have the most difficulty coping.

“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.”

I strike because at 21 years old, I drove alone into an inferno. I saw hell on Earth between the mountains and the ocean, and I watched it again in Napa and Paradise.

Can fast fashion exist in a more sustainable world? The answer is complicated.

Builders have trouble tapping the tiny-home craze. Now they are scrambling for other ways to build and sell small living spaces without violating zoning restrictions and other laws.

The fate of Foster City and the rest of the Bay Area was front and center last week as state lawmakers grappled with the many threats California must confront as the ocean pushes farther inland.

Wildfire and drought dominate the climate change debates in the state. Yet this less-talked-about reality has California cornered. The coastline is eroding with every tide and storm, but everything built before we knew better — Pacific Coast Highway, multimillion-dollar homes in Malibu, the rail line to San Diego — is fixed in place with nowhere to go.

State lawmakers across the country are calling for huge investments to mitigate the effects of wildfires, flooding, hurricanes, droughts and other natural disasters made more devastating and frequent by climate change.

Many experts now believe that this surge in new infectious diseases is being driven in part by some of humanity’s most environmentally destructive practices, such as deforestation and poaching, leading to increased contact between highly mobile, urbanized human populations and wild animals.

Spain’s new government declared a national climate emergency, taking a formal first step toward enacting ambitious measures to fight climate change.

More than a soccer field’s worth of Amazon forest is falling every minute.

California is likely to again dominate the discussion of U.S. states as government leaders, scientists and activists gather in New York for this week’s United Nations summit on climate change.

Pummeled by fires, drought and floods, California’s Democratic primary voters put fighting climate change at the top of their list of issues for the next president to tackle.

Determined to set themselves apart on the issue of climate change, candidates for Los Angeles City Council are refusing to accept campaign contributions from fossil fuel companies and their executives — and criticizing rivals who won’t make the same promise.

A vegan-furnished household, after all, doesn’t include anything tested on animals or sourced from animals.

The planet is in hot water — literally — and that will have dire consequences for humanity, warns a new United Nations report on the state of the world’s oceans and ice.

The world is drifting steadily toward a climate catastrophe. For many of us, that’s been clear for a few years or maybe a decade or even a few decades.