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In the south, the California coastal sage and chaparral extends across the Mexican border into northwestern Baja California and Los Angeles. [8] The coastal sage ecoregion is notable for having the highest number of native bees in the United States, although much of the ecoregion is now urbanized. [8]
Helium production and storage in the United States, 1940-2014 (data from USGS) In 1903, an oil exploration well at Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas that would not burn.. Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth took samples of the gas back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland discovered that gas contained 1.84 percent
Fire officials in Los Angeles have run into a serious snag while trying to contain the nearly half-dozen blazes threatening the city - questions about the water supply.. Wildfires currently cover ...
California oak woodlands, in Gaviota State Park, near Santa Barbara, California. The region has been heavily affected by grazing, logging, dams, and water diversions, intensive agriculture and urbanization, as well as competition by numerous introduced or exotic plant and animal species.
Airtankers get water from the ocean to fight the Palisades Fire Jan. 9, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Apu Gomes / Getty Images
Ponce was a vocal opponent of a proposed desalination plant near Doheny State Beach in Orange County, which the California Coastal Commission recently approved. Experts are working to solve many ...
The acid was transported to the dump sites on barges operated by California Salvage Company. [4] The Montrose Corporation site, consisting of 13 acres (5.3 ha), is now an EPA Superfund site. Other industries also discharged PCBs into the Los Angeles sewer system that ended up on the Palos Verdes Shelf. [5]
Helium storage and conservation is a process of maintaining supplies of helium and preventing wasteful loss. Helium is commercially produced as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Until the mid-1990s, the United States Bureau of Mines operated a large scale helium storage facility to support government requirements for helium.