Nowhere is the new normal more evident than the frenzied hording of so-called "trophy homes" by the world's 1800 billionaires.As Bloomberg reports, the ultra-luxury housing market…

The rioting that swept Baltimore the past few days, sadly, was no exception, but part of a bigger trend in some of our core cities…

As cities expand, it’s not just humans who are becoming increasingly urbanized. Concrete jungles and actual jungles are no longer realms apart, and as natural…

With all the attention focused on California’s water woes, an observer might conclude that the Golden State’s drought is the exception. It isn’t. Forty states…

Just when things have calmed down, the drug industry opens a new salvo in its war against bioidentical hormones, perceived as stealing market share from…

As I wrote about in my last post, bees are capable of learning which flowers offer good nectar rewards based on floral features such as colour,…

California’s drought and how it’s handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior. California…

For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life — 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and…

As residents adapt to recently imposed water restrictions and California's historic drought continues, experts are closely examining the dry spell's exacerbating factors—from thirsty agribusiness operations…

In California's epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives for increasing the available water supply go untapped. Wars over California's limited water…

For decades, the controversial church was able to bat down unflattering media attention. But now the klieg lights are everywhere. For most of its existence…

The bold headline of a recent Los Angeles Times editorialby the hydrologist Jay Famiglietti starkly warned: “California has about one year of water left. Will you…