The Latest Stories From KQED Science
| Here's Why Wildfire Experts Are Worried About An EPA Plan For Cleaner Air | | The EPA is planning to tighten standards within the Clean Air Act, but a difference in how wildfire and prescribed fire smoke are accounted for could lead to perverse incentives. | | |
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| New Bill Could Ease Teenagers' Access to Opioid Treatment Amid Ongoing Fentanyl Epidemic | | San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney introduced a bill that would allow some teenagers to receive Suboxone to ease opiate withdrawals without their parents' consent, lifting what he argues is a key barrier to treatment. | | |
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| Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea Rise | | One environmental model predicts that by 2100, stormwater could threaten a neighborhood now under construction. Protecting the community depends on extreme waterfront engineering decades into the future. | | |
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| California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible | | Recently wracked by drought, California is now bracing for the possibility that even more water will deluge communities already overwhelmed by floods. | | |
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| PHOTOS: See How Storms Have Refilled California Reservoirs | | Twelve of California’s 17 major reservoirs are filled above their historical averages for the start of spring. That includes Folsom Lake, which controls water flows along the American River, as well as Lake Oroville, the state's second largest reservoir and home to the nation's tallest dam. | | |
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| Radiolab Live: How the Cassette Tape Changed Us | April 20 and 21, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Do you want to be happier, healthier or wealthier, or simply want to reach your full potential? What if we told you that you have the power to do all these things and more?
Starting in the 1980s, phrases like these could be heard on cassette tapes and through headphones at a dizzying rate. It was the birth of self-help and the death of collective reality. WNYC Studios’ Radiolab and Senior Producer Simon Adler present a live multimedia event exploring self-help, the power of these phrases, the cassette tapes that carried them, and the ideas embedded within. Featuring silent disco headsets and a performance from freestylers Bay Area Theatre Cypher. | | |
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| Deep Look at International Ocean Film Festival | | Join Deep Look at the 20th International Ocean Film Festival at Fort Mason Center’s Cowell Theater in San Francisco, April 13-16th. Deep Look’s skeleton shrimp and barnacles films will be screening on Thurs. April 13 at 4pm and on Sat. April 15 at 10am, respectively. Don’t miss this year’s festival featuring more than 30 independent ocean films from around the world. | | |
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