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How can movies, paintings, and poems help us address the climate crisis?

This story orignally aired in 2014 and most recently aired in the November 7th, 2022 Crosscurrents episode.There's a mountain of statistics that suggest…

For most of her life, Neets’aii Gwich’in leader Sarah James has worked to protect her homelands, including the coastal plain of the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But, now the U.S. government wants to lease some of the area for oil exploration and drilling.

Almost 90% of the natural landscape along the Bay has been lost to human development. Climate change and sea level rise mean even more of it is going…

We are listening to our audience to cover the issues that matter most to you this election season. This story is one example, and please share your own…

I visit the bottom floor of the Alisal Health Center in East Salinas in February. It’s home to the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program, where new…

This summer, farmworkers in California have been working with extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and, in Monterey County, high rates of COVID-19 as they…

In Salinas, if you make a run to the grocery store to pick up a bag of kale, you’ll probably pass rows and rows of the leafy green.There’s one store, Food…