‘We basically had a second chance with this species — and what’s amazing about marine mammals and other wildlife is how resilient they are’

A happy read 🦭 via Soumya

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Metro Los Angeles I was grateful to get a ride across the flood this morning in Union Station!

New: A snapshot of the damage dealt by the unrelenting storms in the Santa Cruz region.

I drove down there this weekend during a rare respite. Today, mudslides and flooding are back as the storms return.
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I learned this week that not many people outside California know how big a role Southwest plays in transporting residents between Northern and Southern California. Shawn Hubler Soumya nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/…

Good breakdown of why ballot counting takes so darn long in California by Soumya

For those wondering, it's not just the fact that CA allows mail in ballots arriving after election day — 15 other states do as well!

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Why ballots are still being counted in CA?

⁦Soumya⁩ has you covered.

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NEW: Karen Bass + Rick J. Caruso are most closely associated with other parts of Los Angeles, yet each has deep personal or professional ties to the San Fernando Valley. It's likely the area of the city where the mayor's race will be won or lost. latimes.com/california/sto…

Evidence of the dangers of indoor pollution is mounting.

Benzene levels were low enough that it's not an immediate cause to throw out your gas stove, but scientists agree that there's no safe threshold for benzene exposure, as it accumulates in the body.
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THREAD: Los Angeles is known for sunshine and sprawl. But for the past three decades L.A. has been the most housing overcrowded large county in America. In the pandemic, L.A.'s overcrowded areas have suffered. We wanted to understand how it happened (1/16) latimes.com/california/sto…

NEW: We unravel the cruel paradox at the heart of development in Los Angeles: How L.A. became known worldwide as the capital of single-family-home suburbia but also the nation's most crowded place — and its deadly consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic latimes.com/california/sto…

Anna May Wong was a dazzling, trailblazing talent on the silver screen & a courageous advocate for representation in cinema — inspiring generations of AAPI actors.

It’s fitting her likeness will grace our quarter beside an all-American creed: E Pluribus Unum, “from many, one.”

Some have begun discussing another, potentially more dramatic step to address the public’s outrage in the wake of the scandal: scrapping the maps of the council’s 15 districts and drawing new ones. David Zahniser 🦅 + I asses the possibility and peril of this latimes.com/california/sto…

LA City Council started their live stream for their upcoming city council meeting
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How much impact can any one of us have in fighting climate change? Join Soumya for a conversation with Dr. Leah C. Stokes, Gregg Sparkman and Hal Harvey on what individuals can do to address the climate crisis. nyti.ms/3RMvBmR

Great Basin bristlecone pines are some of the oldest trees in the world, and the absolute oldest one is in central California. I got to visit them, write about them and I’m obsessed! nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/…