In recent weeks, residents say the area has been blanketed in a thick haze while the ports have ramped up operations to deal with a massive global shipping bottleneck.
Environment & Climate
Murphy will examine the role trees play in the well-being of communities, particularly cities.
Danielle Bergstrom speaks with Veronica Garibay, the co-founder and co-director of Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, an environmental justice organization based in Fresno.
This year saw a scorcher of a summer, the hottest on record. Worse, it could be the coldest summer we’ll see in our lifetimes, as accelerating climate change makes extreme events like the June heat dome that broiled the Pacific Northwest a regular occurrence. But the threats posed by climate change
The state's child welfare system is still recovering from funding cuts, compounding the crisis.
This story is part of a series produced for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Roads in rural Fresno County are often neglected and underdeveloped. Potholes, flooding and basic safety measures go unfixed. There are no streetlights, sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks, center lines or even speed limit signs on many roads in rural towns, and public transit service is limited.
Thousands of Indigenous migrants toil on California farms, cut off from health care by language and cultural barriers.
Unhoused people who use drugs are reversing overdoses and saving hundreds of lives each year.
Imagine taking your kids on a trolley to visit the neighborhood park. Now, picture an electric transit system that’s fast and cheap and can take you to work right from your doorstep. What if Fresno could do all that, and reduce the local rate of childhood asthma?