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Explore the remarkable ways people around the world are adapting to a changing climate with environmental anthropologist and filmmaker Alizé Carrère. Dive into the South Pacific waters of Vanuatu, where islanders are using innovative techniques to combat the effects of climate change and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish that threaten the surrounding reefs. In Bangladesh, farmers in low-lying areas facing sea level rise and flooding are reviving an old agricultural technique-floating gardens...
Once among the most powerful politicians in the nation's most populous county, a Federal jury on Thursday convicted former LA County Supervisor and LA City Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas on charges of bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud. The charges related to benefits his son received at the University of Southern California (USC). The verdict, which jurors reached in their fifth day of deliberations, marked a tragic turn for a gentleman who for more than 30 years was a powerbroker...
You may have noticed SUV's with the Motional and Uber logos driving up and down Washington Avenue North of Wilshire in Santa Monica. They are also to be found elsewhere in SM, as is their competitor, Google owned WAYMO. Automated driving system development company Motional is expanding its operations in California, and already moves passengers on the Las Vegas strip. They are now an option on the Strip when you order Uber. This according to two testing supervisors, Kenly and Lyndon, whom we met...