Hormone-disrupting phthalates can be found in everything from plastics and household goods to personal care products. Studies have shown they may be harmful to women’s reproductive systems.
New York Times, Aug. 25, 2020
Category: Featured stories
As Covid-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers
In Monterey County, growers and worker advocates join forces with researchers, doctors and public officials.
FERN/Univision, July 7, 2020
Farmworkers at Driscoll’s supplier demand fair pay, safe conditions amid pandemic
Strawberry pickers strike for a 10-cent-a-box raise. Instead of meeting with the workers, the grower calls the sheriff’s department.
FERN, May 28, 2020
In California’s farmworker towns, coronavirus forces a scramble for safe drinking water
With stores rationing bottled water, some 1 million residents whose tap water is tainted with agricultural pollutants confront the state’s failure to solve the problem
FERN, April 22, 2020
Tipped Restaurant Workers Were Already Hanging By a Thread. What Now?
“We’ve been overwhelmed with the desperation.”
Mother Jones/FERN, April 4, 2020
Migrant Farmworkers Feed America — And They’re At High Risk For A Coronavirus Outbreak
Living in crowded dorms with no space to quarantine the sick, farm laborers are “petrified.”
HuffPost/FERN, March 26, 2020
Traumatised by the Cure
Survivors of life-threatening illness can be left in profound fear and distress. Are they suffering from a form of PTSD?
Aeon, March 3, 2020
Today’s Special: Grilled Salmon Laced With Plastic
We used to think microplastics stayed in a fish’s guts. Chilling new research suggests the tiny particles migrate into its flesh.
Mother Jones/FERN, Sept. 12, 2019
Feeding Wild Birds Can Carry Risks: Here’s How to Minimize Unintended Harms
Backyard bird feeders help urbanites feel close to nature but can also expose birds to disease and other potential threats. Luckily, bird lovers can take simple steps to reduce risks.
Travel science: Earthquake trail
The 1906 Earthquake left such “blindingly obvious” features in the earth it helped geologists tie faults with quakes and laid the foundation for modern seismology.
The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2019 (and SF Gate, Aug. 29, 2019)