Treasured California dairies to close. Point Reyes locals say it’s conservation gone mad

Environmentalists are celebrating a legal settlement that will close historic family dairies they say are degrading Point Reyes National Seashore. Locals say the settlement shows no understanding of this place and its people.

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‘I knew those houses were gone’: What it was like as fire ravaged Laguna Niguel community

Residents describe what they saw and experienced as fire consumed a Laguna Niguel community.

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Hundreds of tents that lined Venice Beach are gone, but residents say job is far from done

For the tourists, it may be the Ocean Front Walk of old: quirky shops, beachfront restaurants, sculpted bodies and assorted sketchy characters. But for residents, last summer’s effort to clear nearly 200 tents from the promenade didn’t do the job.

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Hubble provides holistic view of stars gone haywire

As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of years. But near the end of their lives they can turn into crazy whirligigs, puffing off shells and jets of hot gas. Hubble has dissected such crazy fireworks in two nearby young planetary nebulas.
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