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Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go May 5, 2021 2:53 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Accidents, injury and deaths on the job are common in the construction industry. Photo credit: Capt. Mark Carr, U.S. Dept. of Labor via Creative Commons WASHINGTON—In the decades since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established, there’s been ...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go May 5, 2021 2:53 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Accidents, injury and deaths on the job are common in the construction industry. Photo credit: Capt. Mark Carr, U.S. Dept. of Labor via Creative Commons WASHINGTON—In the decades since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established, there’s been ...

Tapped for California fish and game commission, UCSC ecologist wants to invite more voices to the table Quick Take If her appointment is approved by the state Senate, UC Santa Cruz ecologist Erika Zavaleta would become the campus’ only faculty member actively serving on a state government commission. Erika Zavaleta has seen California’s natural resources through many lenses — as a journalist, wilderness ranger and author, and from her current role as a UC Santa Cruz professor of ecology. Tapped by Gov. Gavin Newsom for the California Fish and Game Commission earli...

The mighty kelp forests off California’s coast are highly valued as biodiverse ecosystems essential for sequestering carbon, but they have been hit hard by a range of different foes, including the ravages of heat waves, destruction by fishing and armies of voracious sea urchins. In the past century kelp forests have declined by up to 75 per cent in some areas, but new research from the University of California at Santa Cruz reveals otters may be...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Satellite images show the dramatic reduction from 2008 to 2019 in the area covered by kelp forests (gold) off the coast of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties in Northern California. view more  Credit: Meredith McPherson Satellite imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining. Species-rich kelp forests have been replaced by "urchin barrens," where purple sea urchins cover a seafloor devoid of kelp and other algae. A new study led by...