Category Archives: Environmental

By REECE PASCOE With the first major rainfall of the year in Southern California, usually in the winter, everyone goes a little crazy. Car crashes litter the freeways, youth sports games are canceled, and everyone rushes to get home, finally...

By LAUREL BUSBY Special to Circling the News Senior Camran Mahmoodi leaned forward to share details of a climate change lesson in his Improv class at Palisades Charter High School. “I wasn’t expecting it,” he said. “It was funny and...

The Pacific Palisades Garden Club will meet via Zoom at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 6, with a presentation on summer vegetables and pest management by guest speaker Christy Wilhelmi. Guests are welcomed and could win one of Wilhemi’s books....

“We heard of some water changes in the LA Times some weeks ago, but nothing from DWP as of yet,” a reader wrote Circling the News on May 20. “Are there some new water rules?” Starting June 1, L.A. Mayor...

The Pacific Palisades Garden Club will host its monthly meeting tomorrow, May 2, at 7 p.m. via Zoom. The speaker will be Sheda Morshed of Resilient Palisades, a nonprofit based in town that works with issues that affect the environment....

For three days, the branches were cut, the sawing was incessant. Finally, all that was left was the stump, which was pulled and ground into the woodchippers, too. The tree had been in front of the house on Radcliffe Street,...

A study was released last week in Science of the Total Environment that showed microplastics have been found in people’s lungs. Bigger plastic pieces deteriorate to smaller pieces called microplastics. Lung tissue from surgery participants found plastic in all lung...

Two of the giveaways at the Earth Day event at Will Rogers State Park were a plastic measuring spoon and a plastic avocado peeler from Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office. When a millennial was shown the freebies, he responded, “You went...