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How fierce fall and winter winds help fuel California fires

Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara It doesn’t take long in California...

A bee economist explains honey bees’ vital role in growing tasty...

Brittney Goodrich, Auburn University It’s sometimes reported that one in every three bites of food depends on bees. As is often the case when an...

Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there...

Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research Once again, the summer of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere has brought us an epidemic of major...

A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires

Michael Kodas, University of Colorado Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California,...

Why there are so many unsheltered homeless people on the West...

Margot Kushel, University of California, San Francisco One-quarter of homeless people in the U.S. live in California, despite Californians making up only 12 percent of...

End of the gig economy? Don’t read too much into a...

Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon A recent California Supreme Court ruling is being hailed as a “game changer” for the gig economy. That’s...

Why Trump’s infrastructure ambitions are likely to stall

Caroline Nowacki, Stanford University and Kate Gasparro, Stanford University President Donald Trump recently raised the ante with his promise to unleash a wave of new...

Trump’s push for new offshore drilling is likely to run aground...

Charles Lester, University of California, Santa Cruz The Trump administration’s effort to dramatically expand federal offshore oil production has reignited a battle with California that...

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