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Environmental Health
A new article published by the East-West Center outlines how the state can effectively stem the rapidly growing coronavirus cases in the Pacific Islander community.
This series started with Jessica. We find out what happened to her.
Olympia’s response to homelessness defied conventions. Did it work? A year later, we look at the city’s results and whether they point to a way forward.
The city and county’s managed camp is working—but its impact is limited, and its time may be ending.
A young family from Haiti was seeking refuge in Canada. Canada wouldn’t take them, and so the family ended up back in the United States, with nowhere to go.
Many areas were zoned for homes decades or even centuries before our current understanding of wildfire risk.
Coastal Watershed Council leader on Santa Cruz’s homeless impacts.
A reporter quickly shifted gears when COVID-19 struck to produce a renters’ rights guide to answer tenants’ urgent questions.
This story was produced by Rubén Tapia with support from USC Center for Health Journalism's 2020 Impact Fund. His reporting looks at how delays in the cleanup of neighborhoods contaminated by emissions from the now-shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in LA is affecting the health of residents...