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The California Vegetation Burn Severity online viewer by CalFire displays data on all wildfires over 1,000 acres from 2015-2023.

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SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Fire crews are battling a brush fire that is burning in San Diego County near Lyons Valley on Thursday. The fire is sending large plumes of smoke into the air that can be ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove ...

The park is an officially designated International Dark Sky Park, one of the few places in Southern California where light pollution doesn’t ruin the celestial show. On clear nights, the Milky Way ...

Many food deserts are urban, low-income areas that do not provide incentive for grocers to open a new market in the neighborhood.