David Danelski

Air pollution linked to depression and slow thinking

Feeling a bit slow and depressed? It just might be the air.

Neuroscientists at Ohio State University have linked fine-particle air pollution to slow thinking, bad memory and depressive-like behaviors in mice. The exposed animals also were found to have abnormal brain cells, inhibiting the flow of electrical impulses that transmit information.

Native Americans object to desert energy projects

The recent sight of road graders clearing old-growth Mojave Desert shrubs for the nation's first large-scale solar energy project on public land pained Phil Smith.

Kangaroo rats defeat homeowners in a court battle

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Small, seed-eating kangaroo rats are safe on the endangered species list, living the good life here on a 41,000-acre reserve in Riverside County.

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