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Wednesday marks five years since the Camp Fire; one group of fire survivors that sometimes gets overlooked is patients of end-of-life care. Also, a federal court ruling makes it illegal for cities to penalize unhoused residents camping on city property if the city doesn't have shelter beds available; now California Assembly Republicans are calling for the decision to be overturned, and more than 10 million recipients have lost Medicaid coverage and millions more will in the coming months after federal protections ended this spring.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with UC Davis climate and environmental scientist Hannah Palmer and colleague Veronica Vriesman, a marine scientist and paleontologist at Oberlin College in Ohio.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with Rolling Stone contributing editor and author Jeff Goodell about his latest book, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.
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Communities are being confronted with protecting the vulnerable during increasing extreme heat events, but a Chico State professor says cooling centers might not be the best option for those most at risk — the elderly poor. Also, Shasta County has a new evacuation zone system, and Butte County Library's "Access to Technology" program aims to help seniors and adults with disabilities learn how to use computers and navigate the web more comfortably.
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Galveston, Texas, has some of the fastest sea level rise in the world. To protect the city, engineers need to know how fast ice in West Antarctica will melt. Scientists are racing to figure it out.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with UC Davis climate and environmental scientist Hannah Palmer and colleague Veronica Vriesman, a marine scientist and paleontologist at Oberlin College in Ohio.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with one of the true heroes of environmental activism in the U.S. and the world -- Bill McKibben.
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A Butte County resident diagnosed with monkeypox shares their experience. Also, the likelihood of seeing a megaflood in California has doubled due to climate change, and health officials say trauma due to wildfire is affecting more children in the state.
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Officials in Tehama County say they don’t have the resources to notify every resident in the event of an emergency such as a wildfire. Also, an investigation found a stalled U.S. Forest Service project could have protected Grizzly Flats from the destructive Caldor Fire, and research suggests climate change is increasing the likelihood of megafloods in California.
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For some survivors of destructive wildfires in the North State, recovery is just beginning. Also, a highly contagious COVID-19 subvariant is detected in Shasta County, and an investigative reporter explores how climate change is taught in schools.