Natural Resources

Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)

2012-01-15 00:00:00

The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does. The Coachella Valley city, which had devolved into a down-at-the-heels caricature of a Hollywood playground, has reinvented itself: Its retro-...

Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket. Clustered nearby are hangar-sized assembly buildings, looming berms of sand...

U.S. presses China, Japan, South Korea to trim Iran oil imports

2012-01-10 00:00:00

Renewable energy projects in California go unused

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Higher oil prices boost Exxon's profit 2%

2012-01-31 12:33:00

Rhino hunt in South Africa sparks debate

2012-01-08 15:37:00

12 in Southern California and Nevada charged with trafficking in wildlife

2012-01-07 00:00:00

Panel clears scientists who testified in delta smelt case

2012-01-06 00:00:00

Gov. Brown's cap-and-trade spending plan angers businesses

2012-01-11 00:00:00

Sectarian strife roils Nigeria amid strike

2012-01-10 16:33:00

Gulf currents aided breakdown of oil after BP spill, study says

2012-01-09 22:22:00

Coastal Commission fines Huntington Beach property owner $430,000

2012-01-12 00:00:00

Environmental scientists Liz Barker discovers a gopher tortoise as during removal of the threatened species rom a construction site of Orange County's Northwest Water Reclamation Facility expansion, Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

2012-02-09 12:27:26

During a visit to Japan last November, National Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Allison Speaker, right, along with the Japanese cherry blossom queen and the vice governor of Miyagi prefecture plant a cherry blossom tree to represent rebirth for the survivors of last year's tsunami in Japan.

2012-02-09 07:19:58