Ann Carlson’s Smog and Sunshine traces how Los Angeles tackled pollution and transformed its air quality over decades ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles metropolitan area has more seasons than winter, spring, summer and fall -- we have a fifth season of sorts that traditionally begins around this time of year: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smog hangs in the air as the sun sets after a hot day in the Los Angeles Basin on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Luis Sinco / Los ...

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times ...

People walk in smog on December 20, 2016 in Jinan, Shandong province, China. Air pollution could be the cause of 1 in 3 deaths in China, new academic research suggests, making everyday life about as ...

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Smog. It’s embedded in L.A.’s brain. For good reason. From up in the space shuttle, in 1983, astronaut Sally Ride could see the pollution blotting out her Los Angeles hometown.