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Now, San Francisco is considering drastic measures to save its historic shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sanaz Tahernia, digital health care professional\"]‘The Ferry Building, if you wanna raise it seven feet, that’s gonna save the Ferry Building. But what’s gonna happen to the rest of the city?’[/pullquote]The waterfront landmarks of many cities are under increasing threat from floods and rising sea levels brought on by human-driven climate change. St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy and the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles face similar challenges to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the growing magnitude and frequency of the climate-related threats, the high costs and effort involved in saving heritage sites, and competing ideas about what’s worth saving and what isn’t, can make it hard for cities to know where their priorities lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole issue of climate change and historic preservation intersects right at the waterfront,” said Elaine Forbes, executive director of the Port of San Francisco. The agency manages a 7.5-mile stretch of the city’s Bay-facing waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she watched the ferries come and go on a sunny afternoon near her office at one of the city’s recently renovated historic piers, Forbes said sea level rise hasn’t historically been as much of a threat to San Francisco as major earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of the main road that runs along the waterfront have flooded from heavy rains in recent years. The state estimates the water could rise roughly up to two and a half feet above its current level by 2060, and potentially up to seven feet by the turn of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say it’s clear by mid-century we need to have had intervention,” Forbes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is figuring out how to strengthen its sea wall, sections of which are 140 years old. It also plans to physically move some of the waterfront’s historic structures out of harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent of these is the Ferry Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To prepare for sea level rise, which is coming, we may need to lift this building up to seven feet,” Forbes said, gazing up at the heavily-touristed landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ferry Building sits in the middle of the waterfront. It’s been a beacon to incoming ferry riders since the late 1890s. The high end boutiques and gourmet eateries inside attract droves of visitors. It’s hard to imagine what it will take to physically raise the enormous white structure with its soaring clock-tower up that high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard loud and clear everywhere: It’s to be saved,” Forbes said, adding that this will happen — no matter the cost or effort involved. The specifics of the project have yet to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What’s gonna happen to the rest of the city?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, the city has conducted extensive studies and outreach to help determine how to make its shoreline more resilient. Last year, it sought feedback on a set of proposed strategies through public meetings, focus groups and shoreline walks. A\u003ca href=\"https://sfport.com/files/2023-02/WRP%20-%20Draft%20Waterfront%20Adaptation%20Strategies%20Community%20Engagement%20Summary%20-%202.1.23_0.pdf\"> recent report (PDF)\u003c/a> states “preserving the historic nature of the Embarcadero” — that’s the part of the waterfront where the Ferry Building sits — as one of the public’s priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone NPR spoke with necessarily feels the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ferry Building, if you wanna raise it seven feet, that’s gonna save the Ferry Building. 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They all had differing viewpoints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would just be something to see the change, if it goes good or if it’s bad,” said Raymond Tillery, a student and skateboarder who grew up in one of the city’s waterfront areas. “Like if it’s for the people or if it’s for profit or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a shame for all these old buildings to be destroyed,” said Mary Mulcrone, a visitor from Ireland with family in the San Francisco Bay Area. “But I think all over the world with global warming, we’re going to see whole countries underwater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t wanna see any part of the city affected if we can do anything about it, honestly,” said Dakari Tillery, a security guard at the Ferry Building and San Francisco native.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Saving the city’s shoreline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preserving historic buildings is just a small piece of San Francisco’s overall\u003ca href=\"https://sfport.com/wrp\"> Waterfront Resilience Program\u003c/a>. Other priorities include beefing up emergency response systems and protecting natural habitats.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1982800,science_1979603,science_1982875\"]The Port of San Francisco estimates the project could cost billions of dollars. Forbes said there are tough decisions to make around safeguarding the future of the city’s waterfront cultural heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, San Francisco’s Port Authority said ongoing community feedback is helping to inform its draft plan for saving the city’s shoreline. That plan is expected to be released early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where heritage is often most vital is where it is lived and used,” said Marcy Rockman, a Washington, D.C.-based consultant and researcher focused on the impact of human-caused climate change on cultural heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockman said all neighborhoods have heritage, not just ones with plaques on the buildings. 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"content": "\u003cp>The United States government is taking on one of the world’s most powerful companies: Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court battle kicks off on Tuesday in which the U.S. Justice Department will argue that Google abused its power as a monopoly to dominate the search engine business. It’s the government’s first major monopoly case to make it to trial in decades and the first in the age of the modern internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2020/10/20/google_complaint_filed_0.pdf\">case (PDF)\u003c/a> hinges on claims that Google \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/20/925736276/google-abuses-its-monopoly-power-over-search-justice-department-says-in-lawsuit\">illegally orchestrated its business dealings\u003c/a>, so that it’s the first search engine people see when they turn on their phones and web browsers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’ve heard there is yet another new variant of SARS-CoV-2. Say it ain’t so!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it is so. Viruses mutate, new variants emerge. That’s happened a number of times with SARS-CoV-2 since the start of the pandemic in 2020. And it’s happening again. In mid-August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced: “A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 called BA.2.86 was detected in samples from people in Denmark and Israel. At least two cases have been identified in the United States. This variant is notable because it has multiple genetic differences from previous versions of SARS-CoV-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact there are 35 mutations on the spike protein compared to currently circulating variants. That’s as big of a difference as there was between the original virus and the omicron variant identified in November 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spike protein is what the virus uses to enter our cells. Those mutations could potentially help the virus evade the protection provided by COVID vaccinations and prior infections, says \u003ca href=\"https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/about\">Katelyn Jetelina,\u003c/a> an epidemiologist and scientific consultant to the CDC, who writes the “Your Local Epidemiologist” blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC and the World Health Organization are taking a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not yet enough data to assess the potential of this variant to cause a wave. But the CDC said on Wednesday that, “based on what [it] knows now, existing tests used to detect and medications used to treat COVID-19 appear to be effective” for the variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also believes that BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 vaccines because the mutations on the spike protein could allow it to evade our immune systems despite prior vaccinations and having had COVID-19. Scientists are evaluating the effectiveness of the new booster expected to be approved by mid September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And companies that make antigen tests, vaccines and treatments are testing them to see if they are effective on the variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the conclusion is that this variant poses a significant risk of triggering waves of cases due to its mutations, it will get it own name. That name, next in the Greek alphabet for COVID variants, would be pi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I have a 66-year-old friend who’s never stopped wearing a mask and still refuses to go to restaurants, movies or even socialize indoors. He has had the latest booster. Are these extreme precautions still warranted at this stage? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s complicated,” says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.mountsinai.org/waleed-javaid\">Dr. Waleed Javaid,\u003c/a> epidemiologist and director of Infection Prevention and Control at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City. “Some people refused to mask, and others refuse to unmask. Part of it is knowing your risks, like if you are traveling in a crowded space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javaid says we need to to be empathetic to the needs of others. “We don’t know other peoples’ risks. Some people may have serious illnesses, immunocompromising conditions, cancers, or transplants — and not share this information with their friends or loved ones.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dr. Waleed Javaid, director, Infection Prevention and Control at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City\"]‘We don’t know other peoples’ risks. Some people may have serious illnesses, immunocompromising conditions, cancers, or transplants — and not share this information with their friends or loved ones.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/1972/andrew-stanley-pekosz\">Andrew Pekosz,\u003c/a> a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, says “it’s still very, very clear” that the hospitalizations and deaths from COVID — \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations-landing\">currently on the rise\u003c/a> — are being driven by certain portions of the population: those over the age of 65, those with underlying medical conditions, individuals on cancer treatment, solid organ transplant recipients and people who are immunocompromised. “In my opinion, if you are in those groups that should more than justify taking a few extra precautions if you want to minimize your risk,” he says. “And I think we as a society needs to be a little bit more accepting of those individuals who feel the need to take those steps to protect themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for case counts, the end of the public health emergency for COVID means many data points on cases are no longer collected. But in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_7dayeddiagnosed_00\">emergency room visits\u003c/a> are still tallied and are rising. U.S. hospitalizations are still reported as well and have been increasing steadily since July, based on CDC data. For the week ending Aug. 12, there were 12,613 new hospitalizations for the virus, up from 10,370 the previous week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long will it take for the new booster, coming in the fall, to confer protection? A week? Ten days? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, news alert: A meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/25/2023-18288/advisory-committee-on-immunization-practices\">has been set for Sept. 12\u003c/a> to discuss the updated COVID-19 booster, likely to be followed by the CDC director adopting their recommendation very soon after and making recommendations on who should get the updated shot. Pharmacies and doctors offices are already gearing up to give the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back to the immunity you can expect. “It takes up to two weeks for you to have the best protection [from a vaccine],” says Dr. Javaid. Andrew Pekosz says for COVID the vaccines may even work a bit faster because of prior immunity people have from vaccines and from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html#est-infections\">having had the virus.\u003c/a> “Within ten days you would detect increases in your immunity and by two weeks you should be at pretty good levels that would be protecting you from a COVID-19 infection and particularly severe COVID-19,” Pekosz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When does protection of COVID vaccines and boosters wane? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have that long-term data available yet,” says Dr. Javaid. “There are multiple factors involved. There are patient factors, illnesses, immunocompromising conditions and the ability to mount immune response depending on medications — like steroids — that suppress the immune system. There are also viral factors, like if the virus mutates enough to evade our immune system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, says Javaid, being vaccinated will provide some degree of protection against infection that can last for months or even years because of the body’s immune memory. This means vaccinated individuals will likely have milder symptoms than unvaccinated. And so far, Javaid says, the vaccines have held up well against severe disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are three vaccines this fall — the flu vaccine, the expected fall COVID booster and the RSV vaccine. 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And then, many cars started operating with no humans at all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re mostly run by Cruise, which is owned by GM, and Waymo, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet. Both companies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-most-tech-forward-city-has-doubts-about-self-driving-cars-d6b098e0\">poured billions of dollars\u003c/a> into developing these autonomous vehicles. Neither Cruise nor Waymo responded to questions about why the cars can be disabled by traffic cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo says it has a permit for 250 cars and it deploys about 100 at any given time. Cruise says it runs 100 in San Francisco during the day and 300 at night. The Department of Motor Vehicles made Cruise \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958630/cruise-robotaxi-fleet-will-be-halved-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco\">cut that number in half\u003c/a> after one of its cars collided with a firetruck last week. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Street theater protests are nothing new in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 to let the two companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957833/are-you-ready-for-more-driverless-taxis-cpuc-votes-on-whether-to-let-cruise-waymo-expand-in-sf\">run their vehicles at all hours of the day\u003c/a> picking up passengers like taxis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead-up to the commission’s vote prompted the Safe Street Rebel group to start “coning,” as they call it. Members have long used street theater shenanigans to gain attention in their fight against cars and to promote public transportation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coning driverless cars fits in line with a long history of protests against the impact of the tech industry on San Francisco. Throughout the years, activists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/12/17/251960183/in-a-divided-san-francisco-private-tech-buses-drive-tension\">blockaded Google’s private commuter buses\u003c/a> from picking up employees in the city. And when scooter companies flooded the sidewalks with electric scooters, people \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnet.com/culture/the-mad-tale-of-the-electric-scooter-craze-with-bird-lime-and-spin-in-san-francisco/\">threw them into San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then there was the burning of Lime scooters in front of a Google bus,” says Manissa Maharawal, an assistant professor at American University who has \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12744\">studied these protests\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that when tech companies test their products in the city, residents don’t have much say in those decisions: “There’s been various iterations of this where it’s like, ‘Oh, yep, let’s try that out in San Francisco again,’ with very little input from anyone who lives here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gets to the crux of Safe Street Rebel’s protest. The group only agreed to speak to NPR if they could remain anonymous because it’s unclear if what they’re doing is legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought that putting cones on these [driverless cars] was a funny image that could captivate people,” says one organizer. “One of these self-driving cars with billions of dollars of venture capital investment money and R&D, just being disabled by a common traffic cone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First responders aren’t happy with driverless cars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Safe Street Rebel has \u003ca href=\"https://www.safestreetrebel.com/conesf/\">cataloged hundreds of near misses and blunders\u003c/a> with Cruise and Waymo vehicles over the past few months — even without traffic cones. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cars have \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/12/watch-san-francisco-cruise-robotaxi-appears-to-almost-get-hit-by-bus/\">run red lights\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/cruise_032323-pdf/\">rear-ended a bus\u003c/a> and blocked crosswalks and bike paths. In one incident, dozens of confused cars \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/dead-end-sf-street-plagued-with-confused-waymo-cars-trying-to-turn-around-every-5-minutes/\">congregated in a residential cul-de-sac\u003c/a>, clogging the street. In another, a Waymo \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/06/a-waymo-self-driving-car-killed-a-dog-in-unavoidable-accident/\">ran over and killed a dog\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really need traffic cones to show how vulnerable they are,” says the Safe Street Rebel organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Cruise and Waymo say their vehicles are far safer than human drivers and compared to humans they’ve had relatively\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>few incidents. They say they’ve driven millions of driverless miles without any human fatalities or life-threatening injuries. An Uber self-driving car, operating in full autonomous mode and with a safety driver in the vehicle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/uber-self-driving-car-fatal-crash/\">killed a pedestrian in Arizona\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Street Rebel isn’t the only group that’s had issues with the autonomous vehicles. San Francisco’s police and fire departments have also said the cars \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193272085/san-francisco-has-lots-of-self-driving-cars-theyre-driving-first-responders-nuts\">aren’t yet ready for public roads\u003c/a>. They’ve \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-robot-taxi-driverless-car-reports-san-francisco/\">tallied 55 incidents where self-driving cars have gotten in the way of rescue operations\u003c/a> in just the past six months. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents include driving through yellow emergency tape, blocking firehouse driveways, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/waymo-cruise-fire-department-police-san-francisco/\">running over fire hoses\u003c/a> and refusing to move for first responders. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Autonomous vehicles are programmed to be overly conservative\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ziwen Wan, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at University of California, Irvine, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/autonomous-vehicles-can-be-tricked-dangerous-driving-behavior\">studied why driverless cars may be acting this way\u003c/a>. He used open source data for his research, so his findings aren’t based specifically on Cruise and Waymo. Wan found that ordinary objects on the road can lead to dangerous driving behavior. Part of this, he says, is because the cars are programmed to be overly conservative. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The software can make the autonomous vehicle behave as conservatively as possible because a safety violation would be very serious,” Wan says. “But this may lead to concerns on the other side, like in some cases, even though it’s safe it will fail to drive normally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That abnormal driving includes abrupt halts, swerves, erratic behavior or just stopping in the middle of the road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The traffic cone protest is an example of how things in the real world can really confound machines, even ones as sophisticated and finely tuned as this,” says Margaret O’Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington who \u003ca href=\"https://www.margaretomara.com/\">studies the tech industry\u003c/a>. “It’s a reminder that in this very high-tech world, the most low-tech things can literally put a wrench in the machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the bumps in the road, both Waymo and Cruise are rapidly expanding their robo-taxi programs throughout the U.S. Waymo is already giving rides in Phoenix and is testing with human safety drivers in Los Angeles and Austin. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two people dressed in dark colors and wearing masks dart into a busy street on a hill in San Francisco. One of them hauls a big orange traffic cone. They sprint toward a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193272085/san-francisco-has-lots-of-self-driving-cars-theyre-driving-first-responders-nuts\">driverless car \u003c/a>and quickly set the cone on the hood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle’s side lights burst on and start flashing orange. And then, it sits there immobile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, looks good,” one of them says after making sure no one is inside. “Let’s get out of here.” They hop on e-bikes and pedal off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All it takes to render the technology-packed self-driving car inoperable is a traffic cone. If all goes according to plan, it will stay there, frozen, until someone comes and removes it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anonymous activist group called Safe Street Rebel is responsible for this so-called coning incident and dozens of others over the past few months. The group’s goal is to incapacitate the driverless cars roaming San Francisco’s streets as a protest against the city being used \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957833/are-you-ready-for-more-driverless-taxis-cpuc-votes-on-whether-to-let-cruise-waymo-expand-in-sf\">as a testing ground for this emerging technology\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past couple of years, driverless cars have become ubiquitous throughout San Francisco. It began with human safety drivers on board, who were there to make sure everything ran smoothly. And then, many cars started operating with no humans at all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re mostly run by Cruise, which is owned by GM, and Waymo, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet. Both companies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-most-tech-forward-city-has-doubts-about-self-driving-cars-d6b098e0\">poured billions of dollars\u003c/a> into developing these autonomous vehicles. Neither Cruise nor Waymo responded to questions about why the cars can be disabled by traffic cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo says it has a permit for 250 cars and it deploys about 100 at any given time. Cruise says it runs 100 in San Francisco during the day and 300 at night. The Department of Motor Vehicles made Cruise \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958630/cruise-robotaxi-fleet-will-be-halved-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco\">cut that number in half\u003c/a> after one of its cars collided with a firetruck last week. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Street theater protests are nothing new in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 to let the two companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957833/are-you-ready-for-more-driverless-taxis-cpuc-votes-on-whether-to-let-cruise-waymo-expand-in-sf\">run their vehicles at all hours of the day\u003c/a> picking up passengers like taxis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead-up to the commission’s vote prompted the Safe Street Rebel group to start “coning,” as they call it. Members have long used street theater shenanigans to gain attention in their fight against cars and to promote public transportation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coning driverless cars fits in line with a long history of protests against the impact of the tech industry on San Francisco. Throughout the years, activists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/12/17/251960183/in-a-divided-san-francisco-private-tech-buses-drive-tension\">blockaded Google’s private commuter buses\u003c/a> from picking up employees in the city. And when scooter companies flooded the sidewalks with electric scooters, people \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnet.com/culture/the-mad-tale-of-the-electric-scooter-craze-with-bird-lime-and-spin-in-san-francisco/\">threw them into San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then there was the burning of Lime scooters in front of a Google bus,” says Manissa Maharawal, an assistant professor at American University who has \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12744\">studied these protests\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that when tech companies test their products in the city, residents don’t have much say in those decisions: “There’s been various iterations of this where it’s like, ‘Oh, yep, let’s try that out in San Francisco again,’ with very little input from anyone who lives here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gets to the crux of Safe Street Rebel’s protest. The group only agreed to speak to NPR if they could remain anonymous because it’s unclear if what they’re doing is legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought that putting cones on these [driverless cars] was a funny image that could captivate people,” says one organizer. “One of these self-driving cars with billions of dollars of venture capital investment money and R&D, just being disabled by a common traffic cone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First responders aren’t happy with driverless cars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Safe Street Rebel has \u003ca href=\"https://www.safestreetrebel.com/conesf/\">cataloged hundreds of near misses and blunders\u003c/a> with Cruise and Waymo vehicles over the past few months — even without traffic cones. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cars have \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/12/watch-san-francisco-cruise-robotaxi-appears-to-almost-get-hit-by-bus/\">run red lights\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/cruise_032323-pdf/\">rear-ended a bus\u003c/a> and blocked crosswalks and bike paths. In one incident, dozens of confused cars \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/dead-end-sf-street-plagued-with-confused-waymo-cars-trying-to-turn-around-every-5-minutes/\">congregated in a residential cul-de-sac\u003c/a>, clogging the street. In another, a Waymo \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/06/a-waymo-self-driving-car-killed-a-dog-in-unavoidable-accident/\">ran over and killed a dog\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really need traffic cones to show how vulnerable they are,” says the Safe Street Rebel organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Cruise and Waymo say their vehicles are far safer than human drivers and compared to humans they’ve had relatively\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>few incidents. They say they’ve driven millions of driverless miles without any human fatalities or life-threatening injuries. An Uber self-driving car, operating in full autonomous mode and with a safety driver in the vehicle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/uber-self-driving-car-fatal-crash/\">killed a pedestrian in Arizona\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Street Rebel isn’t the only group that’s had issues with the autonomous vehicles. San Francisco’s police and fire departments have also said the cars \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193272085/san-francisco-has-lots-of-self-driving-cars-theyre-driving-first-responders-nuts\">aren’t yet ready for public roads\u003c/a>. They’ve \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-robot-taxi-driverless-car-reports-san-francisco/\">tallied 55 incidents where self-driving cars have gotten in the way of rescue operations\u003c/a> in just the past six months. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents include driving through yellow emergency tape, blocking firehouse driveways, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/waymo-cruise-fire-department-police-san-francisco/\">running over fire hoses\u003c/a> and refusing to move for first responders. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Autonomous vehicles are programmed to be overly conservative\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ziwen Wan, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at University of California, Irvine, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/autonomous-vehicles-can-be-tricked-dangerous-driving-behavior\">studied why driverless cars may be acting this way\u003c/a>. He used open source data for his research, so his findings aren’t based specifically on Cruise and Waymo. Wan found that ordinary objects on the road can lead to dangerous driving behavior. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Biden administration is one step away from designating the first national marine sanctuary nominated by a tribe. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary would protect 5,600 square miles of ocean off the central California coast, an area known for its kelp forests, sea otters and migratory whales. Tribal members of the Chumash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192122040/chumash-tribe-california-marine-sanctuary\">who have lobbied for its creation for more than a decade\u003c/a>, would be involved in managing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision is part of the Biden administration’s push to give Native American tribes a say over lands and waters that were forcibly taken from them. Under the proposal, the area would be protected from energy development.[aside postID=news_11940494 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62630_rock2018-qut-1020x728.jpg']“Sanctuaries uplift local participation in ocean management, and this sanctuary will put Indigenous communities in partnership with NOAA,” says Violet Sage Walker, Northern Chumash Tribal Council chairwoman and a nominator of the sanctuary. “The collective knowledge of the Central Coast’s First Peoples, as well as other local stakeholders, scientists, and policymakers, will create a strong foundation to have a thriving coast for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker’s father proposed the sanctuary in 2015 and the application sat idle for years. It would be located off a stretch of coastline that’s home to many Chumash sacred sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The coastal waters of central California are rich with precious marine life, contain critical ocean ecosystems, and are connected to the past, present, and future of the Chumash people,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement about the announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association put the proposal together in consultation with the Chumash. If the sanctuary moves forward, federally recognized tribes would advise decision-making as part of a collaborative group known as an Intergovernmental Policy Council, modeled after one \u003ca href=\"https://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/management/intergovernmentalpolicy.html\">pioneered with tribes for the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a> in Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one band of Chumash, the Santa Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, is federally recognized. Other bands, like many tribes in California, are not. In the mid-1800s, Congress\u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/fall-winter/treaties.pdf\"> rejected treaties made with some California tribes (PDF)\u003c/a> — a move that was kept secret for decades. 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Commercial fishing would be permitted in the sanctuary, as it is in most marine sanctuaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NOAA will take public comments until Oct. 23 before a final decision is made in mid-2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The country’s network of 15 other marine sanctuaries are monitored for their ecological health, which marine experts say helps spot possible impacts and the effects of climate change. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192122040/chumash-tribe-california-marine-sanctuary\">Chumash tribal members are already teaming up with scientists\u003c/a> to start a monitoring program where the new sanctuary would be designated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Sanctuaries uplift local participation in ocean management, and this sanctuary will put Indigenous communities in partnership with NOAA,” says Violet Sage Walker, Northern Chumash Tribal Council chairwoman and a nominator of the sanctuary. “The collective knowledge of the Central Coast’s First Peoples, as well as other local stakeholders, scientists, and policymakers, will create a strong foundation to have a thriving coast for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker’s father proposed the sanctuary in 2015 and the application sat idle for years. It would be located off a stretch of coastline that’s home to many Chumash sacred sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The coastal waters of central California are rich with precious marine life, contain critical ocean ecosystems, and are connected to the past, present, and future of the Chumash people,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement about the announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association put the proposal together in consultation with the Chumash. If the sanctuary moves forward, federally recognized tribes would advise decision-making as part of a collaborative group known as an Intergovernmental Policy Council, modeled after one \u003ca href=\"https://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/management/intergovernmentalpolicy.html\">pioneered with tribes for the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a> in Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one band of Chumash, the Santa Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, is federally recognized. Other bands, like many tribes in California, are not. In the mid-1800s, Congress\u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/fall-winter/treaties.pdf\"> rejected treaties made with some California tribes (PDF)\u003c/a> — a move that was kept secret for decades. Other bands of Chumash would be able to join the sanctuary’s advisory council, which also provides feedback for decisions and priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11959142\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959142\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-24-at-5.12.42-PM.png\" alt=\"a map showing the waters off California \" width=\"1600\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-24-at-5.12.42-PM.png 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-24-at-5.12.42-PM-800x599.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-24-at-5.12.42-PM-1020x764.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-24-at-5.12.42-PM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-24-at-5.12.42-PM-1536x1150.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. \u003ccite>(Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Credit: Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new boundary of the sanctuary is smaller than the originally proposed 7,600 square miles. It now would exclude an area that is likely to be used for undersea transmission cables from future wind turbines. California’s coast has been the focus of new attention in recent years, as the wind industry looks for places to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146141123/california-offshore-wind-promises-a-new-gold-rush-while-slashing-emissions\">install the state’s first offshore wind farms\u003c/a>. The state has an ambitious goal to get 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A marine sanctuary designation would prevent wind turbines from being installed within its boundaries, as well as offshore oil platforms. Commercial fishing would be permitted in the sanctuary, as it is in most marine sanctuaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NOAA will take public comments until Oct. 23 before a final decision is made in mid-2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The country’s network of 15 other marine sanctuaries are monitored for their ecological health, which marine experts say helps spot possible impacts and the effects of climate change. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192122040/chumash-tribe-california-marine-sanctuary\">Chumash tribal members are already teaming up with scientists\u003c/a> to start a monitoring program where the new sanctuary would be designated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Off the coast of California is an unusual “octopus garden” — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 huddle around an extinct underwater volcano in the black, cold ocean depths, almost two miles below the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are brooding females that spend their days doing nothing but guarding nests full of eggs, a tedious task which can take nearly two years. It would take even longer if not for the warm water seeping from the seafloor that speeds up the growth of their babies, according to new \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3247\">research\u003c/a> that suggests this natural incubator is why octopuses gather there in such huge numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958992/warm-below-the-storm-worlds-largest-known-octopus-garden-discovered-off-california-coast\">The discovery\u003c/a>, published in the journal \u003cem>Science Advances\u003c/em> on Wednesday, highlights how low-key hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor can create isolated patches of cozy warmth, hidden in the darkness, that could play an outsized role in supporting deep-sea life. Thousands of such spots could be dotted up and down coastlines, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a special site for these animals. It’s a breeding site for this octopus. It has effects for the entire community nearby that then has spillover effects beyond that,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/person/james-barry/\">Jim Barry\u003c/a> of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, the lead researcher for this work. “So it’s regionally important and we still know very little about it. How many more of these are there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A surprise in shimmering water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scientists found this site about five years ago, when a submersible vehicle got sent to explore some underwater hills around Davidson Seamount, a submerged mountain off the coast of central California that once was a volcano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the seamount was well-studied, the surrounding areas were not, and researchers were shocked when the vehicle’s headlamps suddenly revealed large groups of purple octopuses, \u003cem>Muusoctopus robustus\u003c/em>, that were crouched over nests of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959038\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/08/24/why-californias-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-octopus-garden/octopus_garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959038\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11959038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-1020x1020.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davidson Seamount is an extinct volcano located 80 miles southwest of Monterey. The octopus garden is located 10,500 feet below the ocean’s surface on a small hill near the base of the seamount. \u003ccite>(Madeline Go/MBARI, basemap created via ArcGIS Online, sources: Esri, USGS | Esri, GEBCO, DeLorme, NaturalVue | California State Parks, Esri, HERE, Garmin, SafeGraph, FAO, METI/NASA, USGS, Bureau of Land Management, EPA, NPS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Octopuses generally are antisocial loners that would rather fight another octopus than live in close quarters. And yet biologists had stumbled onto an enormous octopus garden, a trippy scene straight out of a Beatles song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought, ‘Well, let’s get a really close look.’ And as they zoomed into these octopus, then they saw this shimmering water and they realized this is a thermal spring, this is warm water coming out. And that was somewhat of a surprise because this is an inactive volcano,” explains Barry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time scientists ever \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3247\">observed\u003c/a> a bunch of deep-sea octopuses gathering together was about a decade ago, in another place where warm water seeped out of the seafloor, off Costa Rica. But researchers studying that rocky outcrop didn’t see any viable eggs and thought that perhaps the higher temperatures there had harmed their development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this summer, however, \u003ca href=\"https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-octopus-nurseries-in-costa-rica/\">another expedition\u003c/a> revisited that outcrop and saw that it was actually an active, successful nursery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really kind of blew my mind because it is so drastically different and they’re taking observations in the exact same places that we had been looking at,” says \u003ca href=\"https://ccom.unh.edu/user/ahartwell\">Anne Hartwell\u003c/a>, with the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire, who visited the Costa Rica site in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartwell is part of the team that recently spent months doing robotic work to study the octopus garden near California, to figure out what role warm water might play in drawing octopuses together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The robots we use are so advanced and they have such great technology and cameras and dexterity with their mechanical arms,” says Hartwell. “They enable us to not quite be down there in person, but get a lot done as if we were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers mapped an area the size of a few football fields in detail, installed a time-lapse camera that watched octopuses continuously, and visited individual octopus nests again and again while monitoring water temperatures with probes.[aside postID=news_11958992 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/MBARI_OctopusGarden_octopus_nests_D1427_01_logo-1-1-1020x678.jpg']“We found 6,000 animals in just a small area, and that was just a portion of where the octopuses are distributed. So we’re estimating, I don’t know, up to 20,000 animals may be there,” explains Barry. He adds that the female octopuses are so focused on tending their nests that they mostly ignored the investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can drive up to within eight inches of them and hold a camera right there. They don’t do a thing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The allure of rare warmth in the deep\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ocean water at this depth is normally about 35 degrees Fahrenheit, but the spa-like waters seeping out of cracks and crevices got up to about 51 degrees Fahrenheit — and that’s where the octopuses wanted to brood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The females only nest in warm sites. As far as we can tell, we could find none in cold waters,” says Barry. “There are plenty of nesting sites available, but they don’t nest on just any bare rock. They only choose those sites where there’s a nice warm pool. And in fact, if one female leaves, we found that another one will jump in there within a couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, he says, the octopus eggs matured much more quickly than one would expect, based on what’s known about other octopuses that live in the cold ocean depths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1909px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/08/24/why-californias-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-octopus-garden/researchers-at-the-monterey-bay-aquarium-research-institute-studied-female-octopuses-that-nest-together-off-central-california-at-a-depth-of-about-3200-meters/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959031\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of small octopus gathered on the sea floor\" width=\"1909\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54.jpg 1909w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-1536x865.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1909px) 100vw, 1909px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 10,500 feet. \u003ccite>(MBARI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brood times for nesting females there seemed to be about 1.8 years, while previous \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/news/deep-sea-octopus-broods-eggs-for-over-four-years-longer-than-any-known-animal/\">observations\u003c/a> of a deep-sea octopus in cold water showed that it took 4.5 years for its eggs to hatch, a length of time longer than any other animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biologists know from prior research that warming generally speeds the pace of octopus embryo development. Barry says that having a shorter brooding period should give the offspring a greater chance of survival, since the female octopuses and their developing embryos would spend less time in an immobile, vulnerable state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing that they are getting a brooding time of 1.8 years is awesome. It shows that there’s an advantage to these octopus breeding their eggs in the warmer water,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigelow.org/about/people/borcutt.html\">Beth Orcutt\u003c/a> of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, who has studied the octopus populations off Costa Rica. “That’s the first time we’ve been able to look at that with this kind of data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/janet-voight\">Janet Voight\u003c/a>, an expert on deep-sea octopuses at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, says it’s astonishing to her that the California site has “a concentration of predators that exceeds any reasonable expectation. It’s like, whoa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these female octopuses have given up their predatory life to reproduce and, instead, they themselves are being eaten when they die. The octopus garden seems to support a teeming variety of other life such as crustaceans, anemones and snails. “These are all parts of an ecosystem that’s sustained by the octopus being there and dying in there,” Voight says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the richness of this ecosystem, it could easily have been missed by explorers, because the ocean bottom is so vast and dark, illuminated only for brief moments by the lights of slow-moving exploration vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think of the deep sea, it’s kind of muddy and flat and nothing too much conspicuous around,” says Voight. “Then you stumble upon something like this and it’s like a bonanza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Off the coast of California is an unusual “octopus garden” — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 huddle around an extinct underwater volcano in the black, cold ocean depths, almost two miles below the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are brooding females that spend their days doing nothing but guarding nests full of eggs, a tedious task which can take nearly two years. It would take even longer if not for the warm water seeping from the seafloor that speeds up the growth of their babies, according to new \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3247\">research\u003c/a> that suggests this natural incubator is why octopuses gather there in such huge numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958992/warm-below-the-storm-worlds-largest-known-octopus-garden-discovered-off-california-coast\">The discovery\u003c/a>, published in the journal \u003cem>Science Advances\u003c/em> on Wednesday, highlights how low-key hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor can create isolated patches of cozy warmth, hidden in the darkness, that could play an outsized role in supporting deep-sea life. Thousands of such spots could be dotted up and down coastlines, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a special site for these animals. It’s a breeding site for this octopus. It has effects for the entire community nearby that then has spillover effects beyond that,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/person/james-barry/\">Jim Barry\u003c/a> of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, the lead researcher for this work. “So it’s regionally important and we still know very little about it. How many more of these are there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A surprise in shimmering water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scientists found this site about five years ago, when a submersible vehicle got sent to explore some underwater hills around Davidson Seamount, a submerged mountain off the coast of central California that once was a volcano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the seamount was well-studied, the surrounding areas were not, and researchers were shocked when the vehicle’s headlamps suddenly revealed large groups of purple octopuses, \u003cem>Muusoctopus robustus\u003c/em>, that were crouched over nests of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959038\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/08/24/why-californias-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-octopus-garden/octopus_garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959038\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11959038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-1020x1020.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Octopus_Garden_map_labeled_1080-1024x1024-1.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davidson Seamount is an extinct volcano located 80 miles southwest of Monterey. The octopus garden is located 10,500 feet below the ocean’s surface on a small hill near the base of the seamount. \u003ccite>(Madeline Go/MBARI, basemap created via ArcGIS Online, sources: Esri, USGS | Esri, GEBCO, DeLorme, NaturalVue | California State Parks, Esri, HERE, Garmin, SafeGraph, FAO, METI/NASA, USGS, Bureau of Land Management, EPA, NPS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Octopuses generally are antisocial loners that would rather fight another octopus than live in close quarters. And yet biologists had stumbled onto an enormous octopus garden, a trippy scene straight out of a Beatles song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought, ‘Well, let’s get a really close look.’ And as they zoomed into these octopus, then they saw this shimmering water and they realized this is a thermal spring, this is warm water coming out. And that was somewhat of a surprise because this is an inactive volcano,” explains Barry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time scientists ever \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3247\">observed\u003c/a> a bunch of deep-sea octopuses gathering together was about a decade ago, in another place where warm water seeped out of the seafloor, off Costa Rica. But researchers studying that rocky outcrop didn’t see any viable eggs and thought that perhaps the higher temperatures there had harmed their development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this summer, however, \u003ca href=\"https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-octopus-nurseries-in-costa-rica/\">another expedition\u003c/a> revisited that outcrop and saw that it was actually an active, successful nursery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really kind of blew my mind because it is so drastically different and they’re taking observations in the exact same places that we had been looking at,” says \u003ca href=\"https://ccom.unh.edu/user/ahartwell\">Anne Hartwell\u003c/a>, with the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire, who visited the Costa Rica site in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartwell is part of the team that recently spent months doing robotic work to study the octopus garden near California, to figure out what role warm water might play in drawing octopuses together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The robots we use are so advanced and they have such great technology and cameras and dexterity with their mechanical arms,” says Hartwell. “They enable us to not quite be down there in person, but get a lot done as if we were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers mapped an area the size of a few football fields in detail, installed a time-lapse camera that watched octopuses continuously, and visited individual octopus nests again and again while monitoring water temperatures with probes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We found 6,000 animals in just a small area, and that was just a portion of where the octopuses are distributed. So we’re estimating, I don’t know, up to 20,000 animals may be there,” explains Barry. He adds that the female octopuses are so focused on tending their nests that they mostly ignored the investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can drive up to within eight inches of them and hold a camera right there. They don’t do a thing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The allure of rare warmth in the deep\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ocean water at this depth is normally about 35 degrees Fahrenheit, but the spa-like waters seeping out of cracks and crevices got up to about 51 degrees Fahrenheit — and that’s where the octopuses wanted to brood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The females only nest in warm sites. As far as we can tell, we could find none in cold waters,” says Barry. “There are plenty of nesting sites available, but they don’t nest on just any bare rock. They only choose those sites where there’s a nice warm pool. And in fact, if one female leaves, we found that another one will jump in there within a couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, he says, the octopus eggs matured much more quickly than one would expect, based on what’s known about other octopuses that live in the cold ocean depths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1909px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/08/24/why-californias-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-octopus-garden/researchers-at-the-monterey-bay-aquarium-research-institute-studied-female-octopuses-that-nest-together-off-central-california-at-a-depth-of-about-3200-meters/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959031\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54.jpg\" alt=\"a collection of small octopus gathered on the sea floor\" width=\"1909\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54.jpg 1909w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/mbari_octopusgarden_octopus_nests_d1234_01_custom-1ab07c32e2a99aa4a9f7370a2432fc803ce9cf54-1536x865.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1909px) 100vw, 1909px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 10,500 feet. \u003ccite>(MBARI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brood times for nesting females there seemed to be about 1.8 years, while previous \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/news/deep-sea-octopus-broods-eggs-for-over-four-years-longer-than-any-known-animal/\">observations\u003c/a> of a deep-sea octopus in cold water showed that it took 4.5 years for its eggs to hatch, a length of time longer than any other animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biologists know from prior research that warming generally speeds the pace of octopus embryo development. Barry says that having a shorter brooding period should give the offspring a greater chance of survival, since the female octopuses and their developing embryos would spend less time in an immobile, vulnerable state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing that they are getting a brooding time of 1.8 years is awesome. It shows that there’s an advantage to these octopus breeding their eggs in the warmer water,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigelow.org/about/people/borcutt.html\">Beth Orcutt\u003c/a> of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, who has studied the octopus populations off Costa Rica. “That’s the first time we’ve been able to look at that with this kind of data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/janet-voight\">Janet Voight\u003c/a>, an expert on deep-sea octopuses at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, says it’s astonishing to her that the California site has “a concentration of predators that exceeds any reasonable expectation. It’s like, whoa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these female octopuses have given up their predatory life to reproduce and, instead, they themselves are being eaten when they die. 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"content": "\u003cp>When deadly heat hit the Pacific Northwest two years ago, hundreds of people died, including several residents of public housing in Portland. That’s where Beth Vansmith lives. She has heart disease, a condition that puts her at higher risk for heat illness, and she remembers how awful she felt with no air conditioner and temperatures soaring up to 116.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would get dizzy. I would get nauseous. You know, I’d lose my appetite completely, and it was just so miserably hot,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vansmith borrowed an “itty bitty” portable air conditioner from her sister, which was still a huge relief and at least allowed her to sleep. “I was sitting like this most of the time next to it,” she says during an interview in her one-bedroom apartment, “because it really only cooled like, right here.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vivek Shandas, researcher, Portland State University\"]‘A lot of people go through heat waves, particularly in public housing, without recognizing that this is a potentially lethal climate induced event that’s about to hit them.’[/pullquote]As heat waves get worse, air conditioning has come to feel like a must-have even in parts of the U.S. that historically haven’t needed it. Those who live in public housing are especially \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Heat_Vulnerability_2020.pdf\">vulnerable (PDF)\u003c/a> to the heat — they’re not just low-income, but also disproportionately older, people of color, chronically ill and often living in hotter neighborhoods that lack shade from tree cover. And yet even as extreme heat becomes more common, it remains a struggle for many tenants to get AC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much public housing is decades old, built before central air was widely available, and it would be incredibly expensive to add it now. Many tenants get an allowance for utilities that includes heat, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenandhealthyhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/Air-Conditioning-Heat-Vulnerability-and-Racial-Equity.pdf\">federal rules (PDF) \u003c/a>actually specify that it not cover air conditioning. Residents are allowed to get their own AC units, but Deborah Thrope, of the National Housing Law Project, says most must pay for it and the monthly bills themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we start seeing families paying well above 30% of their income in rent, which makes these programs less affordable.” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A proposal to mandate AC in Texas public housing faced pushback this year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Texas state Rep. Diego Bernal remembers the moment he learned about this problem a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was chatting with a woman who lived in public housing in San Antonio, and she mentioned how brutal the heat was with no AC. He assumed hers was simply broken and offered to send someone to fix it. No, she explained, she was among some 2,400 public housing residents there who had no air conditioner and could not afford to get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It blew my mind, and I was embarrassed,” Bernal says. “Not only do I represent the area, but it also is across the street from my middle school. I mean, I knew all kinds of kids who came from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal, a Democrat, set out to fix this. The City of San Antonio put up money and helped find other funding to \u003ca href=\"https://sanantonioreport.org/workers-installing-air-conditioning-bring-comfort-to-public-housing-residents/\">get AC units\u003c/a> for all public housing residents. In the process, the Department of Housing and Urban Development rejected the use of a federal grant because the window air conditioners were deemed a temporary upgrade, not permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, Bernal proposed bills to mandate or at least encourage air conditioning in federally subsidized housing across Texas. Both failed after affordable housing providers pushed back hard, saying they had no money to make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal says he understands the public housing system is “wildly underfunded.” HUD has an astounding \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/newsletters/watchdog-newsletter/us-ignored-public-housing/\">$80 billion\u003c/a> construction backlog, and many of its buildings are in disrepair. Still, “it is unsafe and inhumane to expect people to live in Texas, especially central and south Texas, without air conditioning,” Bernal says. “So figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal regulations restrict spending on individual air conditioners in public housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>HUD recently updated its safety inspection \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/PIH/documents/NSPIRE-Standard-HVAC_20230620.pdf\">standards (PDF)\u003c/a> which, for the first time, include a temperature threshold to make sure apartments are warm enough during winter. The National Housing Law Project and others urged it to also include a cooling standard during summer months, but the agency did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD declined an interview request but says it is “exploring options” for a cooling requirement. It also recently clarified to local housing agencies that they \u003cem>are\u003c/em> allowed to spend federal money for air conditioning, though only to set up cooling centers in common areas, not for units in individual apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, the agency said, “HUD regulations require that the cost of air conditioning for resident units be paid by the residents, except in the case that elderly or disabled households necessitate it as a reasonable accommodation.” In buildings where a local housing agency pays utility expenses, “families must be charged a surcharge or otherwise pay for … air conditioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public housing agency in New York City cites those federal guidelines, as well as its “current financial hardships,” as the reason for a newly announced air-conditioning fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When COVID hit, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio used emergency pandemic aid to distribute free ACs to low-income households, including 16,000 in public housing. But with that aid running out, the housing agency says starting in October, tenants must pay $8 a month or give back their AC units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them they can take it,” says 73-year-old Manhattan resident Vera Naseva. She says even that little extra would force her to cut back on food. Plus, her AC is noisy and doesn’t fit well in her window, a big problem whenever it rains. “It’s leaking and the floor gets wet,” she says. “It’s not real good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she hopes the agency changes its mind on the fee, because these days “everybody needs air conditioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Research finds air conditioners alone are not the solution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To help better prepare for more extreme events, Portland studied indoor heat in three public housing buildings last summer. Vivek Shandas of Portland State University helped lead it, and says so much research is based on outdoor temperatures from “machines that are flying around the planet.” But of course when temperature spike, people go inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/pbem/news/2023/4/24/city-county-housing-providers-and-residents-partner-improve-indoor-heat-safety\">the findings\u003c/a> were surprising. It turned out many apartments with AC didn’t cool down as much as expected. Residents also found them too noisy and turned them off, especially at night. Others say they just prefer to do without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m comfortable, I’m cool, I’ve got the fan,” says Chris Harris, who lives in one of the buildings in the study. She says her sun-blocking drapes are a “godsend” and that “the only time I see sunlight in my apartment … is when one of the cats gets in the windowsill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is not wrong. The study found that using things like that, as well as evaporative coolers or awnings over a window, made a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their units were remarkably cool throughout the day and the night. And in fact those were the units that were consistently as cool as those that had the mechanical air conditioning systems,” Shandas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some apartments reached 90 degrees or more and stayed hot for hours after the outdoor temperature had cooled off. Residents’ ability to tolerate such heat varied widely. When researchers sent phone alerts to warn people their place had reached a possibly dangerous level, some actually found it annoying and turned off the alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people go through heat waves, particularly in public housing, without recognizing that this is a potentially lethal climate induced event that’s about to hit them,” Shandas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study made clear that residents need more education about heat safety, says Ian Davie, chief operating officer of Home Forward, which manages the public housing buildings in Portland. The agency is holding classes that include “tips for staying cool, how to identify heat related illnesses and then, in a more acute context, what to do if someone is feeling ill, including calling 911,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a tight budget, last year Davie did also allocate a million dollars for air conditioners. That’s helped Vansmith, the woman who sat next to her tiny borrowed air conditioner in 2021. 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Still, “it is unsafe and inhumane to expect people to live in Texas, especially central and south Texas, without air conditioning,” Bernal says. “So figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal regulations restrict spending on individual air conditioners in public housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>HUD recently updated its safety inspection \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/PIH/documents/NSPIRE-Standard-HVAC_20230620.pdf\">standards (PDF)\u003c/a> which, for the first time, include a temperature threshold to make sure apartments are warm enough during winter. The National Housing Law Project and others urged it to also include a cooling standard during summer months, but the agency did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD declined an interview request but says it is “exploring options” for a cooling requirement. It also recently clarified to local housing agencies that they \u003cem>are\u003c/em> allowed to spend federal money for air conditioning, though only to set up cooling centers in common areas, not for units in individual apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, the agency said, “HUD regulations require that the cost of air conditioning for resident units be paid by the residents, except in the case that elderly or disabled households necessitate it as a reasonable accommodation.” In buildings where a local housing agency pays utility expenses, “families must be charged a surcharge or otherwise pay for … air conditioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public housing agency in New York City cites those federal guidelines, as well as its “current financial hardships,” as the reason for a newly announced air-conditioning fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When COVID hit, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio used emergency pandemic aid to distribute free ACs to low-income households, including 16,000 in public housing. But with that aid running out, the housing agency says starting in October, tenants must pay $8 a month or give back their AC units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them they can take it,” says 73-year-old Manhattan resident Vera Naseva. She says even that little extra would force her to cut back on food. Plus, her AC is noisy and doesn’t fit well in her window, a big problem whenever it rains. “It’s leaking and the floor gets wet,” she says. “It’s not real good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she hopes the agency changes its mind on the fee, because these days “everybody needs air conditioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Research finds air conditioners alone are not the solution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To help better prepare for more extreme events, Portland studied indoor heat in three public housing buildings last summer. Vivek Shandas of Portland State University helped lead it, and says so much research is based on outdoor temperatures from “machines that are flying around the planet.” But of course when temperature spike, people go inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/pbem/news/2023/4/24/city-county-housing-providers-and-residents-partner-improve-indoor-heat-safety\">the findings\u003c/a> were surprising. It turned out many apartments with AC didn’t cool down as much as expected. Residents also found them too noisy and turned them off, especially at night. Others say they just prefer to do without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m comfortable, I’m cool, I’ve got the fan,” says Chris Harris, who lives in one of the buildings in the study. She says her sun-blocking drapes are a “godsend” and that “the only time I see sunlight in my apartment … is when one of the cats gets in the windowsill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is not wrong. 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