Ann Carlson’s Smog and Sunshine traces how Los Angeles tackled pollution and transformed its air quality over decades ...

Smoglandia: SoCal officials start to fight the smog problem that begins to defines the region.

L.A. has been tested time and time again. Southern California's battle with smog shows we can overcome big obstacles.

Smoglandia: The cause of SoCal's smog is identified and it isn't the factories spewing black gunk into the sky in support of the war effort.

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a ...

Picture it: July 8, 1943, Los Angeles, California. You go outside and are inundated by a mysterious brown haze in the air that smells gaseous. This is unprecedented, and nobody knows what could be ...

I mean, we’ve got enough smog in Los Angeles, let alone to deal with setting these fires and things.” Smog. It’s embedded in L.A.’s brain. For good reason. From up in the space shuttle, in 1983, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re nostalgic for the Los Angeles of yore, you’re in luck. One of the defining features of 20th century Southern California ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A city of swans, that’s us. From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place that glides serenely ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If you’re nostalgic for the Los Angeles of ...