Tag: California
Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of...
Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45...
Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse
Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University
Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled...
Abortion freedom of speech battle heading to the Supreme Court
Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University
Whether you’re for abortion or against – can the state force you to say anything about it? What about...
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in...
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in...
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
Exposure to wildfire smoke: 5 questions answered
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Editor’s note: Wildfires once again are raging in California – this time in the Los Angeles area, where...
California fire damage to homes is less ‘random’ than it seems
Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
In the midst of the many wildfire emergencies that have faced California this year,...
Who will bury Charles Manson?
Tanya D. Marsh, Wake Forest University
Charles Manson, the wild-eyed cult leader who claimed inspiration for an apocalyptic race war from the Beatles’ “White Album,”...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
