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Emily Green

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Emily Green is a science writer whose work has appeared in the UK Independent, Guardian, New Statesman, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and High Country News.

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Palm trees on Figueroa Street south of 16th Street circa 1890. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
Nowhere else in the country have imported flora so overpowered the native.
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California's weirdest water project keeps getting weirder.
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The U.S. Geological Survey has called the impact of Central Valley groundwater pumping "the largest human alteration of the Earth's surface."
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To UC Davis' Jeffrey Mount, there are two types of levee. "Ones that have failed and ones that will fail." But Delta farmers say their levees are a third type: safe.
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To fix the Delta, Californians have created laws, dams, aqueducts, and are now weighing tunnels.
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Rebate programs and costs are considered for new Southern California gardens.
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When it comes to planting trees and shrubs, consider native plants.
Keep new plantings to a minimum. The illustration thins out the branches to reveal underlying landscape, not as a recommendation of bonsai treatments for canopies.
What actually does grow in Southern California? The short answer: Less.
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Homeowners will have to find other sources to water their landscape other than the public's potable supply.
A fully integrated rain garden allows gardeners to test their ideas for maintenance needs.
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For Californians, who has the right to water -- in what order, for what, in what quantity, and under what terms -- is not an easy answer.
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Parkways now amount to the next big frontier in outdoor urban water conservation.
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