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California’s drought is not just the biggest droughts on Earth
California suffering through driest three years ever recorded, with no relief in sight By Published: June 10, 2014 Last Updated: May 3, 2018 California’s annual precipitation has declined by nearly 30 percent since the...

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Silvio Berlusconi Drinks Vodka
Italy's Berlusconi says Russia's Putin gave him vodka, 'sweet' note Dale Earnhart/Getty Images(ROME) -- On a visit to Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's hometown of Vasto, near Ancona, he drank a toast. The prime...

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Hurricane Ian is Coming Back to Tampa
Op-Ed: Hurricane Ian and the coming climate crash Hurricane Ian is making landfall around the world with an intensity similar to Hurricane Donna. An old-timer was on hand in Tampa, Florida, to gauge the...

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The Last Horse to Compete in the Triple Crown
Farewell to the Horse Who May Have Been America’s Oldest Thoroughbred By Mike Schoenfeld Photographs by Jon Wertheim There’s another reason to take the time to remember the last horse that competed in the...

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Bird Flu in the City: More than three times as many cases of bird flu in L.A. County as last year
First bird flu cases in wildfowl reported in Los Angeles County this year This story is part of the Los Angeles Times’ "The Bird Flu in the City." It is difficult to make predictions...

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Why Are The Olympic Games Not Eligible?
Euro 2022 winner Alessia Russo on making history, inspiring a generation and that viral backheel goal by Daniel Flynn | 16 Jul 2019 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 -...

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The “Save Threatened Vegans” Campaign Is Getting More Popular
Op-Ed: With climate change, we may witness sequoia forests convert to chaparral, conifers to cypress forests, and a few species to extinction — but the diversity we’ll inherit from the Earth is vast. And...

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The San Diego Surf Park Project Is Not Getting a Building Permit
Proposed surf park in California desert is rejected by La Quinta City Council Updated: Wednesday, January 17, 2014, 1:42 PM PT The proposed surf park at Red Rock State Beach near Redding, Calif., is...

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The Military Is Not Allowing Young People to Work in the Military
Letters to the Editor: Go ahead, major in English. Just don't go into debt to do it. In June, I received a letter from a professor who recently graduated from the University of Massachusetts...

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The Ontario Government Is Helping Workers’ Rights
They made doors, gum and jerry cans. Ontario’s ‘essential’ workers in manufacturing accounted for more workplace COVID deaths than any other sector — even health care, which continues to lose patients like crazy. Ontario...