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The Latest Breaking News from Sierra Nevada

Major storm sweeping U.S. brings blizzards, flooding and tornadoes

Heavy rain and severe weather are possible in the Southeast and Florida.

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Storm blowing through California dumps snow in Sierra

Heavy snow fell in the Sierra Nevada as a winter storm packing powerful winds sent ski lift chairs swinging and closed mountain highways while downpours at lower elevations triggered flood watches across large swaths of California into Nevada

The Independent UK

Winter storm slams western U.S., bringing heavy snow to Northern California

A winter storm packing powerful winds, heavy rain and potentially several feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada shut down highways, toppled trees and triggered flood watches and avalanche warnings.

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Storm expected to dump rain overnight onto Southern California, heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada

LOS ANGELES — It’s ramping up to be a major weekend of precipitation across California as one of the biggest storms of the season makes its way south, with heavy snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada on Saturday and rain expected overnight in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times

Storm packing high winds, heavy snow blows into the Sierra

A winter storm packing high winds and potentially several feet of snow is blowing into the Sierra Nevada

The Independent UK

From the air, scientists map 'fast paths' for recharging California's groundwater

Thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age, rivers flowed from giant glaciers in the Sierra Nevada down to the Central Valley, carving into rock and gouging channels at a time when the sea level was about 400 feet lower. When the glaciers retreated, meltwater coursed down and buried…

Los Angeles Times

Legacy of dust: How Owens Valley air pollution increases LA water bills

OLANCHA, Calif. — Even as worsening drought and aridification force Los Angeles to end its overwhelming dependence on imported water, Angelenos may soon realize that weaning themselves off supplies from the rugged eastern Sierra Nevada doesn’t mean they will stop paying for the city’s long, complicated history there.

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California tree carnage: A decade of drought and fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada forests

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

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Commentary: With climate change, we may witness sequoia forests convert to chaparral

In downtown L.A., in the parking lot of the Automobile Club of Southern California, sits a quaint monument, one century old. It’s a cross section of a giant sequoia, propped on its side, with arrows pointing to tree rings marking era-defining events. Meanwhile, in the Sierra Nevada, thousands of crown-scorched…

Los Angeles Times

California’s largest fire keeps growing, threatening homes, air quality, giant sequoias

The Mosquito fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills is California’s largest blaze this year, and it continued to grow Thursday, threatening thousands of homes and the region’s air quality, as well as a historic grove of giant sequoias.

Los Angeles Times

As forests go up in smoke, so will California’s climate plan

LOS ANGELES — When lightning ignited the bone-dry foothills of the Sierra Nevada last year, forestry crews fanned out across Sequoia National Park to defend an ancient grove of California redwoods from wildfire.

Los Angeles Times

Two California fires in the Sierra Nevada have very different outcomes. Why?

The two fires started just 17 miles apart in the rugged terrain of California's western Sierra Nevada — but their outcomes couldn't have been more different.

Los Angeles Times

Oak fire tops 18,000 acres, destroys 41 structures as crews continue to battle blaze

LOS ANGELES — As the sun rose over the Sierra Nevada foothills, it appeared burnt orange through hazy skies in Mariposa County.

Los Angeles Times

Firefighters face punishing weather conditions in battle against raging fire near Yosemite

LOS ANGELES — A combination of heat, low humidity and parched vegetation continues to bedevil firefighters battling an inferno burning in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Yosemite that has forced thousands to flee their homes.

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Oak fire, California’s largest this year, explodes in size; thousands flee, towns threatened

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters were struggling to battle California’s largest fire of the season so far, a fast-moving inferno tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills west of Yosemite National Park that has burned at least 10 structures, forced several thousand people to flee their homes and is threatening multiple mountain…

Los Angeles Times

Explosive fire near Yosemite is California’s largest this year, forcing thousands to flee

LOS ANGELES —Firefighters were struggling to battle California’s largest fire of the season so far, a fast-moving inferno tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills north of Yosemite that has burned at least 10 structures, forced several thousand people to flee their homes and is threatening multiple mountain communities.

Los Angeles Times

California forests are vanishing as wildfires burn larger and more intensely

GREENVILLE, Calif. — A burn scar in Northern California offers an unsettling glimpse into what forests across the Sierra Nevada could become. Bare tree carcasses are strewn across the dun-colored hills. Rock outcroppings jut out like bones.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: We’re in a crowded universe, but Earth is still precious

On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark Sierra Nevada sky.

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Yosemite fire: Why giant sequoia trees are surviving now when others died in recent fires

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through treasured sequoia groves in the Southern Sierra Nevada, generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the ancient…

Los Angeles Times

A California gold mine's toxic legacy: Inside the fight over reopening a treasure trove

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — Five years ago, Canadian mining executive Ben Mossman came to this little Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, planning to strike it rich.

The Independent UK

Improving weather aids fight against Sierra Nevada wildfire

Improving weather is aiding the battle against a Sierra Nevada wildfire that has forced evacuation of several hundred people from their homes and injured seven firefighters

The Independent UK

Sierra Nevada wildfire threatens small rural communities

California authorities say a Sierra Nevada wildfire has destroyed has four structures and is a threat to more than 500 homes and other buildings

The Guardian - US

The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis

When the Camp fire raged through the Sierra Nevada foothills, it turned an existing housing crisis into a growing emergency

The Independent UK

No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold

Scuba divers at Lake Tahoe are sorting through their haul after an unprecedented, yearlong effort to remove litter from the alpine lake's entire 72 miles of shoreline atop the Sierra Nevada

Los Angeles Times

Owens Valley tribes honor a legacy of ‘beauty and suffering’ with historic site nomination

OLANCHA, Calif. — Spirits live here. That’s what Paiute and Shoshone tribal members say about the Owens Lake playa, an arid, eerily flat expanse along the eastern Sierra Nevada range that is prone to choking dust storms.

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