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Welcome to the 2023 LA BioBlitz Challenge

Help discover the incredible biodiversity all over Los Angeles!

Fire north of Montrose-La Crescenta, November 1933.

Research and Collections

How Los Angeles Moved Uncomfortably Close to Mountain Wildfires

A look at L.A.'s growth toward wildfires through historic images from the Seaver Center

Wildfire Smoke and Birds

A Q&A with Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot, Director of Project Phoenix

Life reconstruction of fire at La Brea Tar Pits during the Pleistocene as bison are stuck during a wildfire

Why Did the Ice Age Titans Go Extinct?

A new study reveals that human impacts in an environment made fire-prone by climate change and herbivore loss led to large mammals vanishing from southern California.

Naturalist

How Our Museum Grows

A unique and transformative museum mentorship program about biodiversity begins

Nature in L.A.

Know Your Compost

The how and why of composting

Green returning to the Angeles National Forest in Southern California six months after the Station Fire.

Where There's Smoke

A look at what we know and don't know about how growing wildfires impact our natural world, and how we can learn to cope

Nature in L.A.

Match Point

Fire is a hot-button issue. Regan Dunn, Interim Assistant Deputy Director and Assistant Curator at La Brea Tar Pits, looks at the pervasive planetary issue with a long-term lens.

Children looking at flowers with magnifiers

Naturalist Nature in L.A.

Nature Gardens Turn 10

A look back—and forward–at all the nature thriving in NHM’s Nature Gardens.

Indian common crow butterfly observation from iNaturalist

Research and Collections

The Beginnings of Butterflies

A sweeping new study by over 80 scientists including NHM researcher Vijay Barve identifies that butterflies originated in North or Central America 100 million years ago.

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