Tag: California
Nancy Pelosi victorious – why the California Democrat was reelected speaker...
Kathryn L. Pearson, University of Minnesota
Despite some brash and not insignificant opposition, California’s Nancy Pelosi is returning to her previous role as speaker of...
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
