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Wildfires: Protecting animals and pets

  • by Maddie Hunt
  • December 17, 2018
There’s nothing like a disaster to suddenly reveal how deeply connected we are to our environment and other living things in it. The 2018 wildfire season in California has been the most destructive and deadly ever in our state’s history. This year, some 7,500 fires have burned 1.6 million acres across California, affecting humans and animals alike.
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Wildfires: When preparing for the worst is best

  • by Jennifer Biddle
  • August 22, 2018

When I moved to Sacramento last year I thought I was escaping earthquakes. For years, I lived just down the street from the Hayward Fault in North Berkeley. Our little bungalow on a hill was cute but creaky. I used to joke with my husband that if our house collapsed when The Big One hit we could buy that Airstream he always wanted.

So, it was a relief knowing my family was safe from such a calamity when we moved to Sacramento. Then wildfire season hit.

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Investigación de incendios en California para mamás y futuras mamás

El Estudio de Evaluación de Bio-Muestras sobre Efectos de Incendios (B-SAFE) tiene como objetivo revelar cómo afectan los incendios a la salud de las embarazadas y sus bebés

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Estudio B-SAFE

Este estudio está reclutando ahora participantes que se han visto afectados por los incendios de 2021 en el Norte de California. Pueden participar las embarazadas de 18 años o más que vivan en un área impactada por los incendios y el humo de los incendios. Si quieres unirte al Estudio B-SAFE, puedes obtener más información aquí:

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Effects of COVID-19 and Wildfires on California's Farmworkers

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources held a public session on wildfires on December 8, 2020. Dr. Kent Pinkerton, Director of the UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS), and Heather Riden, WCAHS Agricultural Health and Safety Program Director, presented on the ways the pandemic and wildfires are intersecting and affecting California's farmworker communities. Video of their presentations (beginning at 1:40) and PowerPoint slides are below.
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Reading between the lines with Hong Ji, PhD

The 2019-2020 Environmental Health Sciences Scholar knows fate plays best when it’s in your own hands

By Jennifer Biddle

From all outward appearances, some might describe Hong Ji’s career in epigenetics as pre-destiny. Her life seemed to follow a prescription: Brilliant microbiology student matriculating from top universities to pursue an ever-promising research career, all with the hope of illuminating the dark mysteries of some impossible-to-cure disease.

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