Despite decades of environmental degradation, the Ballona Wetlands isn’t a bleak industrial wasteland. When Topanga resident Richard Brody goes to work each morning, he isn’t headed for an office. Instead, he spends…
Environment
Jonathan White grew up in Malibu. He learned to surf on a ten-foot longboard at Surfrider Beach, and to swim, fish, dive and sail along the local coast. That early love of…
Believe it or not, this is not such a new idea. In 1998, NASA announced it had built a human waste reclamation bioreactor designed for use in the International Space Station and a manned Mars mission. The system cost $250…
Professor Jim Adams, Ph.D. of the USC School of Pharmacy, will lead three plant walks at 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., on the medicinal uses of California native plants. Adams is trained…
Topangans Lyn Henley, Nora Slattery, Diane Ditez, Kristina Levy and Debra Silbar joined 50,000 other concerned Citizens, Scientists and Environmentalist in the peaceful March For Science Los Angeles, just one of 400…
A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2016 shows that 906,605 park visitors spent an estimated $39.4 million in the local community while visiting Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA). That spending supported…
Earth Day this year was celebrated with a twist. With sponsorship by Messenger Mountain News, Rosewood in Topanga and KidzMusic, Inc., Kidz Earth Day was reconfigured as a family-friendly event with a…
In the afternoon of Thursday, April 28, Fiona Nagle, District Director, West Valley/Mountain Communities with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, and Field Deputy Blake Clayton were out walking and happened to see a swarm of…
The National Park Service (NPS) has added two mountain lions, P-55 and P-56, to its study. Both were caught in early April in the same spot in the western Santa Monica Mountains…
IN THE STAR WARS MOVIE UNIVERSE, SPACE HERO LUKE SKYWALKER’S FAMILY SURVIVED ON THE INHOSPITABLE DESERT WORLD OF TATOOINE BY HARVESTING WATER FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. THAT TECHNOLOGY IS NO LONGER SCIENCE FICTION.…