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Public pools serve as community resources, local leaders and residents said, but the city not prioritizing funding for them can take away opportunities.
The Air Quality Index, a method of air quality reporting and forecasting, rose as high as 226 in Sacramento this week. While the AQI was higher in 2018 from the Camp Fire, Sacramento County's current bad air quality still poses serious health threats.<br/><br/>
(Arash Malekzadeh/KQED) The heat goes on, the heat goes on. California has baked under blistering heat this summer, as temperatures in Death Valley climbed to 130 degrees earlier this month, one of the hottest recorded temperatures on Earth. And there’s still more summer to go. The state's July heat wave followed one in the Pacific Northwest that was so hot it buckled streets and melted power cables around Portland, Oregon. Climate scientists have long warned that severe heat waves will be one result of humans belching tons of planet warming gases into the atmosphere. And they say the hea...