California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier

Researchers raised alarms more than a decade ago about the renewed threat of silicosis among workers cutting engineered stone.

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California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier

The grinding and sanding of synthetic engineered stone exposes workers to high levels of lung-scarring silica. Experts say the health risk should have been clear long before workers began falling ill.

Earth surpasses critical 2-degree warming threshold, European climate officials say

For the first time since record keeping began, Earth has surpassed a critical temperature threshold that scientists have long warned could unleash the worst effects of climate change.

Snowed in: Can the SoCal mountains survive climate change?

For weeks last winter, many San Bernardino Mountains residents remained trapped in their homes, buried under as much as 12 feet of snow, some without power for as long as six days. Now worry is spreading that a predicted strong El Niño winter may bring more punishment.

As Disneyland reels from its third death in a year, what can be done to prevent suicides?

Across the nation, the installation of fencing, nets or other physical barriers at tall structures has become a recognized strategy for preventing suicides. Yet Disneyland has not elaborated on any measures after three deaths in a year.

Black farmer looks to ancestors to help Californians battle climate change

Inspired by Octavia Butler's Afrofuturist fiction, a Sonoma County farmer helps Black Californians connect with nature and use their African American heritage to usher their communities — and all of humanity — through the climate crisis.

USC neuroscientist faces scrutiny following allegations of data manipulation

A star neuroscientist at USC is facing allegations of misconduct after whistleblowers submitted a report to the NIH that accused him of manipulating data in dozens of research papers and sounded alarms about an experimental stroke medication his company is developing.

Engineering buried L.A.’s river. Artist Lauren Bon is engineering a plan to free it

For more than a dozen years, Lauren Bon has been creating an artwork so vast, it has required moving many tons of earth. Yet the first phase of her project, "Bending the River," is largely invisible.

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California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier

Researchers raised alarms more than a decade ago about the renewed threat of silicosis among workers cutting engineered stone.

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