Threats to public and environmental health and safety continue to persist in the wake of the most destructive wildfire in California’s history.

As part of an ongoing joint response to multiple wildfires in Northern California, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins what officials are referring to as the largest wildfire cleanup in California’s history.

Since Sunday, Oct. 8, at the peak of the wildfires there were 21 major wildfires that burned over 245,000 acres in total, forcing around 100,000 people to evacuate. While the damage assessment is still ongoing, so far the blazes have destroyed an estimated 8,700 structures and devastatingly taken the lives of 42 people.

A thick, grey haze blankets the state of California. People everywhere are being evacuated from their homes, while thousands of wildfires burn across hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Firefighters and emergency personnel from different towns, cities, states, and even countries have been fighting the California blazes for months.

Research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) suggests that food limitation, especially for nursing mothers, may be linked to record sea lion strandings in California. Their research is part of an ongoing effort to discover the cause of the decade-long unusual mortality event (UME) among California sea lion populations.

“I think we’re going to be looking in the future to sea level rise and how that is going to affect the natural environment and how we’re going to live with that natural environment when we have to change our urban planning to accommodate that sea level rise, and it’s already happening.” - Jim Clark, Redwood Region Audubon Society Conservation Director

Trump administration announced this Tuesday that it will formally put an end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or D.A.C.A. An end date was placed on the legal protections that were granted to approximately 800,000 undocumented people who entered the country as children. 

In a dazzling and dynamic dance of sounds, film, moving topography, and light displays, Andrew Bird immerses his audience in a transcendental experience that is effortlessly nostalgic.