• The Myth of Luxury at Scale

    Shelly Palmer  It was just after 9:30 Friday night when a vociferous klaxon and a yellow tire emoji alerted us that our right front tire had experienced a sudden loss of pressure. My Q7 was handling fine, so instead of pulling over, we decided to check the tire pressure...
  • Misterios de la Reencarnación

    Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador Este tema ha sido motivo de controversia, análisis e investigación a lo largo de la existencia humana. Según los más entendidos en el tema, todos los seres humanos transmigramos por una serie de reencarnaciones, a través de las cuales vamos purificando el alma hasta...
  • Camp Fire was a “climate disaster”

    Tiny temperatures changes conceal dramatic changes underway that call for action Leslie Layton Ethnic Media Services/ChicoSol 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s how much – or how little, depending on your viewpoint – that the daily average temperature increased in recent years in the Paradise area. That little temperature increase is...
  • Comunidades de color, las más vulnerables ante la devastación por Incendios Forestales

    Eric Tegethoff/Alfonso López-Collada Public News Service Seattle, WA – Las minorías étnicas y raciales enfrentan el mayor riesgo por incendios forestales, de acuerdo a un estudio realizado por “The Nature Conservancy” y la Universidad de Washington. Los investigadores esperan que los resultados puedan ser usados para identificar y priorizar a...
  • Communities of Color Most Vulnerable to Wildfire Devastation

    Eric Tegethoff Public News Service SEATTLE, Wash. – Communities of color face the greatest risk from wildfires, according to a new study. Across the country, 29 million people are vulnerable to the fires’ most devastating effects. Researchers at The Nature Conservancy and the University of Washington found socioeconomic factors put...
  • With the onset of global warming, how likely is it that ski resorts and skiing itself might soon become a thing of the past?

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Last winter’s low snow year and unseasonably warm temperatures across much of the American West meant a bad year for business for ski resorts, and also left many of us wondering whether skiing would even be possible in the warmer world we’re getting...
  • Mexican Government Is up at Dawn with Early-Riser Lopez Obrador in Charge

    EFE It was still dark when Mexico’s new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left his home in a modest vehicle and crossed the Mexican capital to the National Palace to start his workday. When the bells of the Metropolitan Cathedral rang at 6:00 am, Lopez Obrador was already meeting...
  • Rate of Uninsured Children Stable in CA, Worsening Nationwide

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – New data out Thursday November 29 shows that only 3 percent of California children are uninsured – the same as last year. But advocates say they worry that federal policies could reverse the gains. Researchers with the Georgetown University Center for Children...
  • Camp Fire changed lives: a survivor’s story

    “This is what being a climate change refugee feels like…” Allan Stellar Ethnic Media Services/ChicoSol That awful, awful day. On that awful day, when Paradise was engulfed in flames, I hugged my yellow lab Angel goodbye. I woke up early, 5 a.m., and decided to leave for work without...
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