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A person drives along a snowy roadway in Los Angeles County, in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, on Saturday near Green Valley, Calif. A major storm delivered heavy snowfall to the mountains with some snow reaching lower elevations in Los Angeles County. More is expected on Tuesday into Wednesday.

California and the Northeast are hit with major winter storms

2:11pm February 28, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

Facing a drought, California sees back-to-back snowstorms that have helped build up the Sierra Nevada snowpack. After an uneventful winter in the Northeast, snow is falling from New Jersey to Maine.

New homes under construction in the desert west of Phoenix.

Here's why Arizona says it can keep growing despite historic megadrought

9:58pm February 27, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

Phoenix has long been one of America's fastest growing cities. But central Arizona may finally be facing a reckoning as much of its groundwater supplies are becoming tapped out.

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IMPACTS mission researchers inside the research plane, monitoring weather data being collected by onboard instruments.

Scientists are flying into snowstorms to explore winter weather mysteries

5:01am February 27, 2023

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

A plane loaded with scientists and their equipment has been flying through frozen skies this winter, sampling cloud particles to improve predictions of which storms will wreak havoc on the ground.

Workers remove contaminated dirt near the railroad tracks on February 14, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio.

EPA tells Norfolk Southern to temporarily stop shipping toxic train derailment waste

1:02pm February 26, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

The agency heard concerns from residents and officials in Texas and Michigan, where some of the contaminated waste had already been shipped.

Iron Eyes Cody, the ''Crying Indian'' whose tearful face in 1970s TV commercials became a powerful symbol of the anti-littering campaign, is pictured in this 1986 photo.

Environment

The rights to a famed PSA of a crying Native American now held by an Indigenous group

10:23am February 26, 2023

by The Associated Press

The anti-pollution ad debuted in 1971 and showed a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of pollution over a once unblemished landscape.

Environment

A big proposed wind project in Idaho faces major local opposition

7:53am February 26, 2023

by Rachel Cohen

Opposition is mounting to what would be one of the biggest wind energy projects on federal public land, near a former Japanese internment camp. There is a nearby constituency fighting the wind farm.

Five people died after an air ambulance crashed in western Nevada

10:57am February 25, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The airplane included a pilot, nurse, paramedic, a patient and family member of the patient. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined.

California's solution to regulations around hazardous waste: send it across state lines

7:52am February 25, 2023

by Robert Lewis / Cal Matters

California government agencies have found an easy way around the state's strict regulations about dumping hazardous waste: send it across state lines.

Pape Dieye tells people it's not worth the risk to try to take a boat from Senegal to Europe.

People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. Here's why he says no

6:00am February 25, 2023

By day, Saint-Louis native Pape Dieye is a boat captain-turned-tour guide for a fancy hotel that caters to Westerners. By night, he turns down requests to smuggle human beings across the ocean.

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A big proposed wind project in Idaho faces major local opposition

6:20pm February 24, 2023

by Rachel Cohen

Opposition is mounting to what would be one of the biggest wind energy projects on federal public land. A neighboring former Japanese internment camp has a constituency fighting it.

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