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Horacio Romero of Toledo, Ohio, looks at algae in Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park on Aug. 4, 2014. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae are back. We're all at risk

Patrick Wensink
Parish's Daisy (Erigeron parishii) (Photo courtesy of Chelsea Vollmer/USFS)

Rare wildflowers protected in California

Matthew Rozsa
A man rows his boat in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on August 16, 2023, following the passage of Tropical Storm Hilary. (Getty Images / FRANCISCO ROBLES / AFP)

Hurricane threatens extreme flooding

Nicholas Grondin - The Conversation
A pall of smog lies over the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

New laws might finally clean SoCal's air

Adam Mahoney - Grist
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Harley Rouda; Katie Hill; Gil Cisneros (AP/Ringo H.W. Chiu/Katie Hill For Congress)

Dems look to sweep six California seats

Igor Derysh
Betty Valencia; Jackson Hinkle (Valencia for Orange City Council/Jackson Hinkle For San Clemente City Council)

Beneath the blue wave in Orange County

Paul Rosenberg
Rain and mud flow out of an neighborhood under mandatory evacuation in Burbank, California, January 9, 2018. (Getty/Robyn Beck)

Post-fire mudslide problems

Lee MacDonald - The Conversation
This artist rendering provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image to the upper-right of Proxima itself. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. (European Southern Observatory via AP) (AP)

Apocalyptic emergency alert airs on TV

Matthew Sheffield
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FILE - This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows an endangered desert tortoise sitting in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

The science of desert water

Judith Lewis Mernit - Capital & Main
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-870799p1.html'>aslysun</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The lawn's gotta go

Sean Bernard
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