Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Friday, July 13, 2018
Seattle Times: Meet the puffins who return to Cannon Beach every spring
Huffington Post: Why Those Compostable Straws May Not Be As Green As You Think
Huffington Post: Ireland Is Set To Be The First Country In The World To Ditch Fossil Fuel Investments
SF Chronicle: Santa Cruz neighbors vow to fight public access to gated beach
SF Chronicle: New cruise to take tourists down California coastline
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Washington Post: As seas rise, California will face a terrible choice: Save public beaches or the cliff-side homes that sit atop them?
Washington Post: A mysterious disease is killing millions of bats. These scientists are trying to save them.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
NY Times: Nights Are Warming Faster Than Days. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.
NY Times: A Restaurant Takes On the Opioid Crisis, One Worker at a Time
NY Times: As Migrant Families Are Reunited, Some Children Don’t Recognize Their Mothers
The Guardian: 'There's a lot of negative energy': Damian Marley on weed, politics and his father's exploited image
San Jose Mercury: Federal investigators launch probe into Southern California mail carrier’s death on 117-degree day
Press Democrat: County declares emergency on homelessness, bracing for more
Press Democrat: Campers lining Santa Rosa street spur homeless debate
Washington Post: She cut her weekly trash down so much it fits in a tiny jar. Here are her tips.
LA Times: To save the world's rarest marine mammal, conservationists seek ban on Mexican seafood imports
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The Oregonian: President Trump pardons Oregon ranchers whose plight led to refuge occupation
NBC: Seattle seniors choosing cannabis over opioids for pain
Forbes: Burned-Out Doctors Make Twice as Many Errors. The Business World Could Offer a Solution
NY Times: How to Meet Your Body’s Water Needs
NY Times: Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Are Starving and Disappearing
The Guardian: The staggering rise of India’s super-rich
The Guardian: Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court
The Guardian: Toronto: chief medical officer calls for decriminalisation of all drugs
Washington Post: India is no longer home to the largest number of poor people in the world. Nigeria is.
Washington Post: Anatomy of a Trump rally: 76 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence
CNN: This California town will give a $500 monthly stipend to residents
SF Chronicle: Grant Fire beaten back, Klamathon keeps growing
Monday, July 9, 2018
Washington Post: How to break your plastic, foil and paper addiction in the kitchen
The Intercept: A ‘Reckless’ Fracking Company, Poisoned Springs, and a Family Forced to Buy Water at Walmart
The Guardian: China revealed as source of illegal ozone-killing emissions
The Guardian: Why America’s cheese capital is at the center of trade war
Press Democrat: County fire tops 90,000 acres
LA Times: Environmentally minded Californians love to recycle — but it's no longer doing any good
LA Times: A beach behind lock and key is turning into a fight over social justice in California
Sunday, July 8, 2018
SF Chronicle: Klamathon blaze crosses Oregon border amid fierce start to fire season
Slate: Living With Lyme What it’s like to be sick when no one believes you.
NY Times: Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy
NY Times: U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
NY Times: Most Nursing Homes Have Overstated Staffing for Years
LA Times: Another night of terror and calamity for Santa Barbara County as new destructive fire sweeps through
Sacramento Bee: Climate Change: Glacier park may outgrow its name in about a dozen years
Sacramento Bee: A record 2.45 billion-pound almond harvest could be hurt with Chinese tariffs
Sacramento Bee: This man cost Sacramento County more in one year than any other homeless person
Press Democrat: Cannabis company raises $22 million to expand Mendocino County site
Press Democrat: Rohnert Park’s decorated ‘dope cop’ earned notorious rap on highway
SF Chronicle: Klamathon blaze doubles in size
SF Chronicle: 20 structures destroyed by wildfire near Santa Barbara
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Washington Post: Food Show: 10 foods you’ll soon be seeing everywhere
LA Times: The roiled solar power market shows how Trump's tariffs can disrupt an industry