The impact, devastation and cost of forest fires in America’s West have multiplied in recent decades. Wildfires are stronger than ever, tearing through communities and overwhelming the forest service budget.
“We love vanilla, chocolate ... but you still have that memory of what you ate back home,” says Smita Vasant, who left her corporate job to open Saffron Spot in Los Angeles.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toxic air pollutants produced by combustion, are linked to lung cancer and other serious health problems. Recent findings suggest that these tiny particles travel long distances and significantly increase overall health risks.
Officials in California are partnering with their Canadian neighbors in British Columbia, as well as officials in Washington and Oregon, to try and reduce their production of climate change-inducing gases. While the announcement last week was met with much fanfare, the details remain to be seen.
“We love vanilla, chocolate ... but you still have that memory of what you ate back home,” says Smita Vasant, who left her corporate job to open Saffron Spot in Los Angeles.
Officials in California are partnering with their Canadian neighbors in British Columbia, as well as officials in Washington and Oregon, to try and reduce their production of climate change-inducing gases. While the announcement last week was met with much fanfare, the details remain to be seen.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toxic air pollutants produced by combustion, are linked to lung cancer and other serious health problems. Recent findings suggest that these tiny particles travel long distances and significantly increase overall health risks.
The impact, devastation and cost of forest fires in America’s West have multiplied in recent decades. Wildfires are stronger than ever, tearing through communities and overwhelming the forest service budget.
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Politics
The leader of the California independence movement lives in Russia
PRI's The World
March 07, 2017
A once fringe idea, some Californians are now seriously contemplating Calexit.
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Lifestyle & Belief
Travel the world on an ice cream tour in Los Angeles
PRI's The World
August 11, 2017
“We love vanilla, chocolate ... but you still have that memory of what you ate back home,” says Smita Vasant, who left her corporate job to open Saffron Spot in Los Angeles.
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Science, Tech & Environment
When it comes to climate, California pursues its own foreign policy
Living on Earth
November 06, 2013
Officials in California are partnering with their Canadian neighbors in British Columbia, as well as officials in Washington and Oregon, to try and reduce their production of climate change-inducing gases. While the announcement last week was met with much fanfare, the details remain to be seen.
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Health & Medicine
Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought
Living on Earth
April 02, 2017
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toxic air pollutants produced by combustion, are linked to lung cancer and other serious health problems. Recent findings suggest that these tiny particles travel long distances and significantly increase overall health risks.
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Arts, Culture & Media
The novel ‘Lucky Boy’ and a timely story of immigration and motherhood
PRI's The World
March 22, 2017
Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, a Global Nation Book Club pick, delves into privilege, motherhood and immigration, legal and not.
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Conflict & Justice
US law students, driven by their own family stories, are helping asylum-seekers
PRI's The World
April 20, 2017
At the University of California, Davis, law students take on immigrant cases, with guidance, and double as cultural navigators too.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Wildfires in the American West blaze hotter, fiercer and longer than ever before
Living on Earth
August 15, 2017
The impact, devastation and cost of forest fires in America’s West have multiplied in recent decades. Wildfires are stronger than ever, tearing through communities and overwhelming the forest service budget.