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California public schools may soon be required to teach kids about the causes and effects of climate change and methods to mitigate and adapt to its effects. Also, the nonprofit Camp Fire Restoration Project has built bioreactors for composting in Bille Park to help restore topsoil after the fire, and Chico State is working to help hundreds of students find off-campus housing by next fall due to Whitney Hall being under construction.

Some North State residents are getting nervous about wildfires now that daily highs are regularly in the triple digits. We turn to Zeke Lunder — wildfire scientist and founder of The Lookout — for more on this year’s peak wildfire season. Also, the Redding City Council weighs in on a controversial and costly decision by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to have all elections counted by hand, and if you’re headed to see Taylor Swift perform in Santa Clara this month the city will actually be called “Swiftie Clara” while you’re there.

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E.M. Liddick relives his fall from grace and searches for a way back home. His book, "All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer's, and the Search for a Way Home," is a tribute to his journey from war, his father's diagnosis of Alzheimer's, and finding meaning in what remains.

Paradise residents pleaded with California officials this week to get major insurance carriers that have stopped or put caps on selling new insurance policies in the state to reconsider. Also, PG&E looks to microgrids as one solution to try to reduce the likelihood of wildfires caused by its equipment, and the state’s energy grid is expected to hold up during this week’s heat wave.

In this week’s conversation, embrace this sublime sensuality from a variety of perspectives in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson.

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to spend nearly half a million dollars on telehealth psychiatry for Dixie Fire survivors but some say the money would be wasted since internet connection is hard to come by in the area. Also, you wouldn’t think Californians smoking less could be a bad thing for kids here but the state’s key early childhood services get a big chunk of their funding from taxes on tobacco, and we turn to a sports medicine expert for how to stay cool and active in this week’s recent extreme heat.

In this episode, Host Dave Schlom visits with managers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to find out what goes into launching America's Artemis missions to the Moon with the Orion spacecraft perched atop the Space Launch System (SLS).

Host Dave Schlom has a fascinating conversation with Dr. Pascal Lee, a planetary scientist from the SETI Institute and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA.

Butte County officials recently voiced skepticism on a project that would bring more than 70 early warning sirens to the county. Also, California State University students could see yearly tuition increases of 6% for the next five years, and artificial intelligence is being used to spot fire ignitions.