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An urban rat makes its way down some stairs.

Another unwelcome consequence of climate change: an explosion of urban rats

Global warming is worsening droughts, making sea levels rise, and fueling deadly storms. Now scientists have a new problem to add to that list: Climate change is helping rat populations thrive in U.S. cities.

LOS OSOS, CA - JANUARY 20: Monarch butterfly on a cyprus tree at the Coastal Access Monarch Butterfly Preserve on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 in Los Osos, CA. Decimated monarch butterfly numbers climbed slightly. A few people are trying to change the odds for the monarchs, chief among them 82-year old Kingston Leong, of San Luis Obispo, a butterfly expert who wants to make sure "the show continues after I'm gone." (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

California’s monarch butterfly population plummets; fire wipes out Topanga habitat

Big Bear Lake, California-Big Bear Lake's famous eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, laid their third egg on Jan. 28, 2025. (FOBBV - Friends of Big Bear Valley)

A second chance at triplets for Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow

JUNE LAKE, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 6: A mallard duck hunts in Silver Lake during the fall migration as fall colors come to trees in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains on October 6, 2024 near June Lake, California. As winter draws closer, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center has predicted a 66% chance that a La Niña weather pattern will continue to develop with a 74% chance of persisting into winter in the Northern Hemisphere. La Niña often causes more heavier than average precipitation in the north of the nation and drier in southern regions. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A new strain of bird flu is found on a California duck farm

Los Angeles, California October 27, 2022-A mountain lion sprints across San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood Thursday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Opinion: Building safer cities means protecting animals too, not just humans

Hundreds of tiny endangered fish saved from Palisades burn area — in the nick of time

Burned and anxious pets fill Pasadena shelter after Eaton fire

Column: The shrine to Mexican horse culture that’s now a sanctuary from the fires

Palisades fire threatens last population of steelhead trout in the Santa Monica Mountains

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Two beavers in a carrier/cage

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Opinion: It’s good to be a California beaver. Again.

California has by law acknowledged beavers, nature’s preeminent water and environmental engineers, as partners in environmental restoration.

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