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The state’s goal with this update is to shore up that messy field, said Dominique Koné, senior science officer with the California Ocean Science Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to ensure that if [local agencies] are going to be planning in their different ways, they at least are using the same numbers going forward and we want those decisions to be based on credible information,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft report, set to publish this summer, will enshrine into California planning for the first time the expectation of roughly 1 foot of sea level rise by 2050, regardless of future emissions reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Hamlington, research scientist in the Sea Level and Ice group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said the state providing this level of certainty should give planners an actionable number to adapt for in the near term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the scenarios point us in that direction,” he said, adding that a foot of sea level rise “is as much as we’ve seen over the past 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, much more is possible: Sea level rise of a meter or more is “certainly on the table,” Hamlington said. “It’s just a matter of when that will potentially happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report will feature as many as five climate scenarios. 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Water in the middleg ground and the skyline of San Francisco in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea levels along coastlines in the US will rise up to 1 foot by the year 2050, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Spurring regional collaboration to prepare for sea level rise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an early April meeting, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or BCDC, previewed a report to come out later this year on the cost of preparing for rising tides. The big finding? BCDC staff tallied all 192 existing and future seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects along the 400 miles of the bay shoreline and found it will cost an estimated $110 billion by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has earmarked just $5.5 billion for the effort, much less than what is needed to adapt the waterline for rising tides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of the cost comes from three counties: San Mateo, Marin and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan also does not consider the cost of adjusting building codes or strategies like managed retreat — moving people and businesses away from flood zones — which would greatly affect the price of adaptation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2023/04/24/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life/us-climate-weather-flood-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982381\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Raised roads cross each other. Water submerges roads under the raised cement byways. A bay and dark green hills are in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-1536x961.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-2048x1281.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-1920x1201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial picture taken Jan. 3, 2022, shows an intersection completely flooded with ocean water during a king tide in Mill Valley. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if leaders fail to act, the bill could actually be much higher at around $230 billion, said Zachary Wasserman, BCDC commission chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would you, if you could, spend $110 billion to avoid $230 billion?” he asked. “I think the answer is yes. The challenge, of course, is where [the money] comes from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BCDC’s cost estimate is based on 4.9 feet of sea level rise and storm surge by 2050, which is much higher than the state panel of scientists said they would likely recommend as a middle-of-the-road adaptation planning parameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had major events like hurricanes that make sea level rise a visible thing in people’s minds,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation for BCDC. “So we don’t have that sense that it has to happen tomorrow. But we need to have all this in place long before 2050 sea level rise occurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, San Mateo County — the county with arguably the most risk from rising seas statewide — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982309/san-mateo-countys-new-sea-level-rise-plan-calls-for-a-100-foot-buffer-zone-for-shoreline-development\">proposed a 100-foot buffer zone between future developments and the bay\u003c/a>. The voluntary guidance asks developers to build construction along the county’s 53 miles of waterfront above today’s high tide by around 10 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d love to be proven wrong and for somebody to say that OneShoreline protected us too much,” said Len Materman, CEO of OneShoreline, San Mateo County’s flood and sea level rise resiliency district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These developments that are coming in now or in the next few years are going to lock in what our shoreline looks like,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2023/04/24/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life/aerial-over-foster-city-california/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982384\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial photo looking down on they San Francisco Bay. A river cuts through white houses and green marshland. Hills and clouds are in the background. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residential communities and the waterways of Foster City, as seen under a dramatic sky. \u003ccite>(Joey Kotifica/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for 1 foot of sea level rise isn’t enough, experts say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But even with this update, some scientists on the state panel said that preparing for only 1 foot of sea level rise by mid-century would be shortsighted. They still need to be convinced the world will reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to prevent the worst-case scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all the ice melted in Greenland and Antarctica, there would be more than 200 feet of sea level rise globally — which would swallow much of the Bay Area and could turn San Francisco into an island, said Gary Griggs, distinguished professor of sciences at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recognizes that just a couple of feet of sea level rise would cause a global disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m skeptical because of the uncertainties,” said Griggs. “The starting point is people should be concerned rather than going into denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other scientists want to make sure that the report doesn’t dilute the message of the impact rising tides will likely have on the most vulnerable Californians. Kristina Hill, director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley, was added to the task force because of her connections with community groups across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they think of this as technical work, and they don’t want to share it with environmental justice leaders until it’s done,” she said. “I’m hoping they will invite EJ leaders before it’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill is also pushing for a section within the update focusing on short-term impacts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1980255/a-lesson-in-discrimination-a-toxic-sea-level-rise-crisis-threatens-west-oakland\">like groundwater rise pushed up by rising tides\u003c/a>, which recent science shows will happen decades before water laps over the shoreline. Her research finds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development\">rising groundwater already infiltrates toxic sites around San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t prevent the groundwater from rising, what are you going to do?” Hill said. “That’s the conversation I really want to have because it shows that conventional adaptation is not going to be enough. We really just need to start preparing for this potential of between 4 and 10 feet and see who’s ready for what.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to ensure that if [local agencies] are going to be planning in their different ways, they at least are using the same numbers going forward and we want those decisions to be based on credible information,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft report, set to publish this summer, will enshrine into California planning for the first time the expectation of roughly 1 foot of sea level rise by 2050, regardless of future emissions reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Hamlington, research scientist in the Sea Level and Ice group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said the state providing this level of certainty should give planners an actionable number to adapt for in the near term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the scenarios point us in that direction,” he said, adding that a foot of sea level rise “is as much as we’ve seen over the past 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, much more is possible: Sea level rise of a meter or more is “certainly on the table,” Hamlington said. “It’s just a matter of when that will potentially happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report will feature as many as five climate scenarios. Researchers said they would almost surely push the worst-case scenarios, 3 to 10 feet of sea level rise, later in this century and even into the next one, a recognition that there is uncertainty as to how fast the world cuts emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2023/04/24/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life/pacifica-mobile-home-park/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982378\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982378 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile homes lined up right on the shoreline, so close that the shadow of the cliff is on the water right below the homes. Waves lapping up over tan sand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1375461888-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mobile home park in Pacifica jutting along the coast. \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The update aims to simplify how cities, counties and agencies plan for rising tides by providing clear information about how to prepare for a far wetter future because of human-caused climate change. It will also include other factors like flood hazards from storms, earthquakes, erosion and groundwater rise, said Patrick Barnard, research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a perception that we’re relatively less at risk than other parts of the country, but we’ve massively built up these extremely low-lying areas,” he said. “We basically put ourselves in harm’s way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state plans to advise cities, counties and developers to examine each project and location’s sea level rise risk. At places with more exposure and vulnerable communities, or with major infrastructure projects like highways, hospitals and bridges, developers will be asked to bolster sea level rise protections for more intense climate scenarios, said Laura Engeman, coastal resilience specialist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a new future, and everything we do has to be reevaluated consistently,” she said. “The techniques we have used in the past, we don’t quite know how they will perform in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the Bay Area’s low-lying areas built on fill are sinking faster than other areas of California. That means those places may have more effects from sea level rise than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She advocates for a shift in mindset in how regions prepare for rising tides. Instead of each city or county preparing independently, Engeman argues it’s imperative to tackle sea level rise with a watershed approach where communities adapt together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2023/04/24/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life/housing-on-treasure-island-san-francisco-bay-area/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982383\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An island lined with tan apartments bordered by green grass. Water in the middleg ground and the skyline of San Francisco in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1315066305-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea levels along coastlines in the US will rise up to 1 foot by the year 2050, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Spurring regional collaboration to prepare for sea level rise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an early April meeting, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or BCDC, previewed a report to come out later this year on the cost of preparing for rising tides. The big finding? BCDC staff tallied all 192 existing and future seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects along the 400 miles of the bay shoreline and found it will cost an estimated $110 billion by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has earmarked just $5.5 billion for the effort, much less than what is needed to adapt the waterline for rising tides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of the cost comes from three counties: San Mateo, Marin and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan also does not consider the cost of adjusting building codes or strategies like managed retreat — moving people and businesses away from flood zones — which would greatly affect the price of adaptation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2023/04/24/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life/us-climate-weather-flood-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982381\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Raised roads cross each other. Water submerges roads under the raised cement byways. A bay and dark green hills are in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-1536x961.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-2048x1281.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523011-1920x1201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial picture taken Jan. 3, 2022, shows an intersection completely flooded with ocean water during a king tide in Mill Valley. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if leaders fail to act, the bill could actually be much higher at around $230 billion, said Zachary Wasserman, BCDC commission chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would you, if you could, spend $110 billion to avoid $230 billion?” he asked. “I think the answer is yes. The challenge, of course, is where [the money] comes from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BCDC’s cost estimate is based on 4.9 feet of sea level rise and storm surge by 2050, which is much higher than the state panel of scientists said they would likely recommend as a middle-of-the-road adaptation planning parameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had major events like hurricanes that make sea level rise a visible thing in people’s minds,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation for BCDC. “So we don’t have that sense that it has to happen tomorrow. But we need to have all this in place long before 2050 sea level rise occurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, San Mateo County — the county with arguably the most risk from rising seas statewide — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982309/san-mateo-countys-new-sea-level-rise-plan-calls-for-a-100-foot-buffer-zone-for-shoreline-development\">proposed a 100-foot buffer zone between future developments and the bay\u003c/a>. The voluntary guidance asks developers to build construction along the county’s 53 miles of waterfront above today’s high tide by around 10 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d love to be proven wrong and for somebody to say that OneShoreline protected us too much,” said Len Materman, CEO of OneShoreline, San Mateo County’s flood and sea level rise resiliency district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These developments that are coming in now or in the next few years are going to lock in what our shoreline looks like,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2023/04/24/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life/aerial-over-foster-city-california/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982384\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1439326151-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial photo looking down on they San Francisco Bay. A river cuts through white houses and green marshland. 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Kristina Hill, director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley, was added to the task force because of her connections with community groups across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they think of this as technical work, and they don’t want to share it with environmental justice leaders until it’s done,” she said. “I’m hoping they will invite EJ leaders before it’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill is also pushing for a section within the update focusing on short-term impacts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1980255/a-lesson-in-discrimination-a-toxic-sea-level-rise-crisis-threatens-west-oakland\">like groundwater rise pushed up by rising tides\u003c/a>, which recent science shows will happen decades before water laps over the shoreline. 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Mifepristone is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, in more than half of all abortions in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Planned Parenthood Northern California, which operates 17 clinics from San Francisco up to Eureka, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982345/california-clinics-promise-no-interruption-in-abortion-care-as-supreme-court-weighs-restrictions-on-mifepristone\">vowed to have no interruption in abortion care for its patients\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff had been training to swiftly switch protocols for medication abortion, if they could no longer use mifepristone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half their patients opt for medication abortion, said Gilda Gonzales, CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California, which currently involves two medications: mifepristone first, to stop the pregnancy hormone progesterone, and then misoprostol, to cause contractions and empty the uterus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the courts had restricted access to mifepristone, the clinics would have relied solely on the second drug, misoprostol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said in a statement on Friday that her organization will continue to use mifepristone but that they would “remain vigilant in monitoring the appeals process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The events of the past several weeks serve as a reminder that reproductive health care is under attack, and opponents will stop at nothing to deteriorate access to care and erode patients’ rights,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had started to build an emergency stockpile of hundreds of thousands of abortion medication pills, and Gov. 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But Judges Andrew Oldham and Kurt Engelhardt said most of the rest of Kacsmaryk’s ruling could take effect while the case winds through federal courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their ruling would have effectively nullified changes made by the FDA starting in 2016, including extending from seven to 10 weeks of pregnancy the time when mifepristone can be safely used. The court also would have halted sending the drug in the mail or dispensing it as a generic drug, and patients who seek it would have had to make three in-person visits with a doctor. Patients also might have been required to take a higher dosage of the drug than the FDA says is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration and Danco have said that chaos would ensue if those restrictions were to take effect while the case proceeds. 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"content": "\u003cp>Suzette Zuena is her own best advertisement for weight loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuena, the “founder/visionary” of LH Spa and Rejuvenation in Livingston and Madison, New Jersey, has dropped 30 pounds. Her husband has lost 42 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out a lot,” Zuena said of the pair’s social routine. “People saw us basically shrinking.” They would ask how the couple did it. Her response: Point people to her spa and a relatively new type of medication — GLP-1 agonists, a class of drug that’s become a weight-loss phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s not just spreading her message in person. She’s also doing it on Instagram. And she’s not alone. A chorus of voices is singing these drugs’ praises. Last summer, investment bank Morgan Stanley found that mentions of one of these drugs on TikTok had tripled. People are streaming into doctors’ office to inquire about what they’ve heard are miracle drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What these patients have heard, doctors said, is nonstop hype, even misinformation, from social media influencers. “I’ll catch people asking for the skinny pen, the weight loss shot or Ozempic,” said \u003ca href=\"https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1942738547/priya-jaisinghani\">Priya Jaisinghani\u003c/a>, an endocrinologist and clinical assistant professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competition to claim a market that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/09/eli-lillys-weight-treatment-looks-poised-to-become-100-billion-drug.html\">could be worth $100 billion a year\u003c/a> for drugmakers alone has triggered a wave of advertising that has provoked the concern of regulators and doctors worldwide. But their tools for curbing the ads that go too far are limited — especially when it comes to social media. Regulatory systems are most interested in pharma’s claims, not necessarily those of doctors or their enthused patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few drugs of this type are approved by the FDA for weight loss — they include Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. But after shortages made that treatment harder to get, patients turned to other pharmaceuticals — like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro — which are approved only for Type 2 diabetes. Those are often used off-label — though you wouldn’t hear that from many of their online boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs have shown promising \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9063254/\">clinical results\u003c/a>, Jaisinghani and her peers emphasize. Patients can lose as much as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183\">15% of their body weight\u003c/a>. Novo Nordisk is \u003ca href=\"https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03574597\">sponsoring research\u003c/a> to examine whether Wegovy causes reductions in the rate of heart attacks for patients with obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medications, though, come at a high price. Wegovy runs patients paying cash at least $1,305 a month in the Washington, D.C., area, according to a GoodRx search in late March. Insurers only sometimes cover the cost. And patients typically regain much of their lost weight after they stop taking it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hype is driving demand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But patients are not necessarily coming to doctors’ offices now because of the science. They are citing things they saw on TikTok, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@pagesix/video/7192648715704782123\">Chelsea Handler\u003c/a> and other celebrities talking about their injections. It leads to the questions “how come she can get it” and “why can I not,” said \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/find-a-doctor/juliana-s-simonetti\">Juliana Simonetti\u003c/a>, a physician and co-director of the comprehensive weight management program at the University of Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excitement — which doctors worry may cause some patients to use medications inappropriately — is coming also from business interests. Some are doctors promoting their venture-capital-backed start-ups. Others are spas hawking everything from wrinkle smoothing and lip plumping to, yes, weight loss benefits of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic; their prices, often in the hundreds of dollars, are well below what consumers would pay if picking up the prescription at a pharmacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., the FDA has oversight over ads from the pharmaceutical industry, which must acknowledge risks and side effects of drugs. But ads from people who write prescriptions don’t necessarily have the same restrictions. FDA regulations apply if the prescriber is working on behalf of a regulated entity, like a pharmaceutical manufacturer or distributor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FDA is also committed to working with external partners, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to address concerns with prescription drug marketing practices of telehealth companies on various platforms, including social media,” agency spokesperson Jeremy Kahn emailed KFF Health News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharma firms run campaigns to educate health care professionals or raise “awareness” that may indirectly tout drugs. Novo Nordisk has an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsbiggerthan/?hl=en\">ongoing internet campaign\u003c/a> to redefine and destigmatize how Americans think of obesity — and, left unmentioned, the drugs that treat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KFF Health News also found that, beyond the industry group’s examination, at least two \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pharmacymentor/photos/a.386940171690317/1671930236524631/?type=3\">other entities\u003c/a> were promoting Novo Nordisk products in the United Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tga.gov.au/\">Australian regulators\u003c/a> have taken down nearly 1,900 ads as of early March for improperly plugging various GLP-1 agonists, an agency spokesperson told KFF Health News. Novo Nordisk says it didn’t put up the ads, the majority of which were for their product Ozempic. The regulators are declining to say who’s involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors are also sounding alarms about the publicity. They believe patients will be driven to use these medications off-label, obtain unreliable forms of these drugs, or exacerbate other health conditions, like eating disorders. The drugs act in part as an appetite suppressant, which can dramatically reduce calorie intake to a concerning degree when not paired with nutritional guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pathlightbh.com/clinical-leadership/elizabeth-wassenaar\">Elizabeth Wassenaar\u003c/a>, a regional medical director for the Eating Recovery Center, believes the drugs and associated advertising buildup will inadvertently trigger eating disorders. KFF Health News found ads showing thin patients measuring themselves with a tape measure and stepping on the scale, with accompanying captions goading viewers into going on GLP-1s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re being marketed very, very pointedly to groups that are vulnerable to experiencing body image dissatisfaction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remi Bader, a curve model and TikTok creator specializing in documenting her “realistic” clothing buys, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/202-ozempic-boyfriend-reveal-w-remi-bader/id1444559244?i=1000593401739\">told one podcast\u003c/a> her story of coming off a “few months” on Ozempic. She said she gained twice the weight back and that her binge eating disorder got “so much worse.” One study, published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, found \u003ca href=\"https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.14725\">two-thirds of lost weight came back\u003c/a> after discontinuation of semaglutide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But social media users and influencers — whether with white coats or as ordinary patients — are hopping on every platform to spread news of positive weight loss outcomes. There are those, for instance, who had gastric bypass surgery that didn’t work and are now turning to TikTok for guidance, support and hope as they begin taking a GLP-1. There’s even a poop-centric Facebook group in which people discuss the sometimes fraught topic of the drugs’ effect on their bowel movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Commercialism and compounding spark excitement and concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some have been so delighted by their medication-assisted weight loss they have become brand ambassadors. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthaislosingit?_t=8b6ouV4H3U6&_r=1\">Samantha Klecyngier\u003c/a> has dropped at least 58 pounds since she started on Mounjaro. She heard of the drug and her telemedicine weight loss program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.joinsequence.com/\">Sequence\u003c/a>, on TikTok. She and many others who have experienced considerable weight loss since starting the medication regimen point to its positive impact and their improved quality of life. Now she officially promotes the company on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Klecyngier, a mother of two from the Chicago area, is not diabetic, she uses Mounjaro. When she was growing up, her parents had Type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases that led them both to have open-heart surgery. Her father lost his life to complications of diabetes. She wants to avoid that fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Klecyngier’s story — combining a personal journey with a profit-making entity — is symbolic of another trend on social media: commercialism. There’s a spate of start-ups eyeing big money matching pharmaceuticals and related support with patients. (Sequence, the company Klecyngier pitches, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/03/06/2621551/0/en/WeightWatchers-to-Acquire-Sequence-a-Digital-Health-Platform-for-Clinical-Weight-Management.html\">just got acquired by WW\u003c/a>, also known as WeightWatchers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some doctors use social media to educate viewers about the drugs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelalbertmd?lang=en\">Michael Albert\u003c/a>, chief medical officer of telehealth practice \u003ca href=\"https://www.accomplish.health/about\">Accomplish Health\u003c/a>, says offering information to his more than 250,000 followers has helped point patients to the medical practice. It’s received thousands of patient inquiries, more than the clinic can take on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Accomplish — start-ups with well-credentialed doctors — are the glossy side of this social media boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are others — like many spas and weight-loss centers — that offer the drugs, sometimes without much medical support, often alongside Botox and dermal fillers. Obesity doctors worry such marketing is creating unrealistic expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some spas and telemedicine operators claim to have “compounded” semaglutide. But compounding — when pharmacies, rather than drug manufacturers, prepare a drug — is a risky proposition, doctors caution. “The risks are enormous,” Simonetti said, warning of potential contamination from poor compounding practices. “The risks of getting bacteria,” she warned, “the risks include death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weight-loss clinics also frequently tout unconventional additions to semaglutide, including vitamin B12 and amino acids. Some patients incorrectly believe the former helps with nausea, Jaisinghani said; other clinics tout greater weight loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novo Nordisk spokesperson Allison Schneider told KFF Health News in an email that the company shares doctors’ concerns about compounding and that it’s begun sending letters warning “certain Health Care Providers” about the related risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some operations defend their use of often-cheaper compounded drugs. LH Spa and Rejuvenation, founded by Zuena, offers a compounded semaglutide formulation from \u003ca href=\"https://qrxweightloss.com/\">QRx Weight Loss\u003c/a> for $500 over four weeks. The spa learned about the regimen from a doctor. “I’m purchasing it,” Zuena said. “It comes next-day air in legitimate vials with lot numbers, expirations.” Patients’ injections and dosages are overseen by on-site medical staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most operators in this burgeoning industry are keen to emphasize their products’ high quality or their company’s good works, as they seek money. Ro, a telehealth firm offering GLP-1s, said its marketing campaign in the New York City subway “aims to start an important, sometimes difficult, conversation focused on de-stigmatizing obesity as a condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This widespread tactic is nothing short of maddening for pharma industry critics. “They talk about trying to destigmatize obesity at the same time they’re talking about losing weight. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Suzette Zuena is her own best advertisement for weight loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuena, the “founder/visionary” of LH Spa and Rejuvenation in Livingston and Madison, New Jersey, has dropped 30 pounds. Her husband has lost 42 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out a lot,” Zuena said of the pair’s social routine. “People saw us basically shrinking.” They would ask how the couple did it. Her response: Point people to her spa and a relatively new type of medication — GLP-1 agonists, a class of drug that’s become a weight-loss phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s not just spreading her message in person. She’s also doing it on Instagram. And she’s not alone. A chorus of voices is singing these drugs’ praises. Last summer, investment bank Morgan Stanley found that mentions of one of these drugs on TikTok had tripled. People are streaming into doctors’ office to inquire about what they’ve heard are miracle drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What these patients have heard, doctors said, is nonstop hype, even misinformation, from social media influencers. “I’ll catch people asking for the skinny pen, the weight loss shot or Ozempic,” said \u003ca href=\"https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1942738547/priya-jaisinghani\">Priya Jaisinghani\u003c/a>, an endocrinologist and clinical assistant professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competition to claim a market that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/09/eli-lillys-weight-treatment-looks-poised-to-become-100-billion-drug.html\">could be worth $100 billion a year\u003c/a> for drugmakers alone has triggered a wave of advertising that has provoked the concern of regulators and doctors worldwide. But their tools for curbing the ads that go too far are limited — especially when it comes to social media. Regulatory systems are most interested in pharma’s claims, not necessarily those of doctors or their enthused patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few drugs of this type are approved by the FDA for weight loss — they include Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. But after shortages made that treatment harder to get, patients turned to other pharmaceuticals — like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro — which are approved only for Type 2 diabetes. Those are often used off-label — though you wouldn’t hear that from many of their online boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs have shown promising \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9063254/\">clinical results\u003c/a>, Jaisinghani and her peers emphasize. Patients can lose as much as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183\">15% of their body weight\u003c/a>. Novo Nordisk is \u003ca href=\"https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03574597\">sponsoring research\u003c/a> to examine whether Wegovy causes reductions in the rate of heart attacks for patients with obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medications, though, come at a high price. Wegovy runs patients paying cash at least $1,305 a month in the Washington, D.C., area, according to a GoodRx search in late March. Insurers only sometimes cover the cost. And patients typically regain much of their lost weight after they stop taking it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hype is driving demand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But patients are not necessarily coming to doctors’ offices now because of the science. They are citing things they saw on TikTok, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@pagesix/video/7192648715704782123\">Chelsea Handler\u003c/a> and other celebrities talking about their injections. It leads to the questions “how come she can get it” and “why can I not,” said \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/find-a-doctor/juliana-s-simonetti\">Juliana Simonetti\u003c/a>, a physician and co-director of the comprehensive weight management program at the University of Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excitement — which doctors worry may cause some patients to use medications inappropriately — is coming also from business interests. Some are doctors promoting their venture-capital-backed start-ups. Others are spas hawking everything from wrinkle smoothing and lip plumping to, yes, weight loss benefits of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic; their prices, often in the hundreds of dollars, are well below what consumers would pay if picking up the prescription at a pharmacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., the FDA has oversight over ads from the pharmaceutical industry, which must acknowledge risks and side effects of drugs. But ads from people who write prescriptions don’t necessarily have the same restrictions. FDA regulations apply if the prescriber is working on behalf of a regulated entity, like a pharmaceutical manufacturer or distributor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FDA is also committed to working with external partners, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to address concerns with prescription drug marketing practices of telehealth companies on various platforms, including social media,” agency spokesperson Jeremy Kahn emailed KFF Health News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharma firms run campaigns to educate health care professionals or raise “awareness” that may indirectly tout drugs. Novo Nordisk has an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsbiggerthan/?hl=en\">ongoing internet campaign\u003c/a> to redefine and destigmatize how Americans think of obesity — and, left unmentioned, the drugs that treat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KFF Health News also found that, beyond the industry group’s examination, at least two \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pharmacymentor/photos/a.386940171690317/1671930236524631/?type=3\">other entities\u003c/a> were promoting Novo Nordisk products in the United Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tga.gov.au/\">Australian regulators\u003c/a> have taken down nearly 1,900 ads as of early March for improperly plugging various GLP-1 agonists, an agency spokesperson told KFF Health News. Novo Nordisk says it didn’t put up the ads, the majority of which were for their product Ozempic. The regulators are declining to say who’s involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors are also sounding alarms about the publicity. They believe patients will be driven to use these medications off-label, obtain unreliable forms of these drugs, or exacerbate other health conditions, like eating disorders. The drugs act in part as an appetite suppressant, which can dramatically reduce calorie intake to a concerning degree when not paired with nutritional guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pathlightbh.com/clinical-leadership/elizabeth-wassenaar\">Elizabeth Wassenaar\u003c/a>, a regional medical director for the Eating Recovery Center, believes the drugs and associated advertising buildup will inadvertently trigger eating disorders. KFF Health News found ads showing thin patients measuring themselves with a tape measure and stepping on the scale, with accompanying captions goading viewers into going on GLP-1s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re being marketed very, very pointedly to groups that are vulnerable to experiencing body image dissatisfaction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remi Bader, a curve model and TikTok creator specializing in documenting her “realistic” clothing buys, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/202-ozempic-boyfriend-reveal-w-remi-bader/id1444559244?i=1000593401739\">told one podcast\u003c/a> her story of coming off a “few months” on Ozempic. She said she gained twice the weight back and that her binge eating disorder got “so much worse.” One study, published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, found \u003ca href=\"https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.14725\">two-thirds of lost weight came back\u003c/a> after discontinuation of semaglutide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But social media users and influencers — whether with white coats or as ordinary patients — are hopping on every platform to spread news of positive weight loss outcomes. There are those, for instance, who had gastric bypass surgery that didn’t work and are now turning to TikTok for guidance, support and hope as they begin taking a GLP-1. There’s even a poop-centric Facebook group in which people discuss the sometimes fraught topic of the drugs’ effect on their bowel movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Commercialism and compounding spark excitement and concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some have been so delighted by their medication-assisted weight loss they have become brand ambassadors. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthaislosingit?_t=8b6ouV4H3U6&_r=1\">Samantha Klecyngier\u003c/a> has dropped at least 58 pounds since she started on Mounjaro. She heard of the drug and her telemedicine weight loss program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.joinsequence.com/\">Sequence\u003c/a>, on TikTok. She and many others who have experienced considerable weight loss since starting the medication regimen point to its positive impact and their improved quality of life. Now she officially promotes the company on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Klecyngier, a mother of two from the Chicago area, is not diabetic, she uses Mounjaro. When she was growing up, her parents had Type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases that led them both to have open-heart surgery. Her father lost his life to complications of diabetes. She wants to avoid that fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Klecyngier’s story — combining a personal journey with a profit-making entity — is symbolic of another trend on social media: commercialism. There’s a spate of start-ups eyeing big money matching pharmaceuticals and related support with patients. (Sequence, the company Klecyngier pitches, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/03/06/2621551/0/en/WeightWatchers-to-Acquire-Sequence-a-Digital-Health-Platform-for-Clinical-Weight-Management.html\">just got acquired by WW\u003c/a>, also known as WeightWatchers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some doctors use social media to educate viewers about the drugs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelalbertmd?lang=en\">Michael Albert\u003c/a>, chief medical officer of telehealth practice \u003ca href=\"https://www.accomplish.health/about\">Accomplish Health\u003c/a>, says offering information to his more than 250,000 followers has helped point patients to the medical practice. It’s received thousands of patient inquiries, more than the clinic can take on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Accomplish — start-ups with well-credentialed doctors — are the glossy side of this social media boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are others — like many spas and weight-loss centers — that offer the drugs, sometimes without much medical support, often alongside Botox and dermal fillers. Obesity doctors worry such marketing is creating unrealistic expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some spas and telemedicine operators claim to have “compounded” semaglutide. But compounding — when pharmacies, rather than drug manufacturers, prepare a drug — is a risky proposition, doctors caution. “The risks are enormous,” Simonetti said, warning of potential contamination from poor compounding practices. “The risks of getting bacteria,” she warned, “the risks include death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weight-loss clinics also frequently tout unconventional additions to semaglutide, including vitamin B12 and amino acids. Some patients incorrectly believe the former helps with nausea, Jaisinghani said; other clinics tout greater weight loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novo Nordisk spokesperson Allison Schneider told KFF Health News in an email that the company shares doctors’ concerns about compounding and that it’s begun sending letters warning “certain Health Care Providers” about the related risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some operations defend their use of often-cheaper compounded drugs. LH Spa and Rejuvenation, founded by Zuena, offers a compounded semaglutide formulation from \u003ca href=\"https://qrxweightloss.com/\">QRx Weight Loss\u003c/a> for $500 over four weeks. The spa learned about the regimen from a doctor. “I’m purchasing it,” Zuena said. “It comes next-day air in legitimate vials with lot numbers, expirations.” Patients’ injections and dosages are overseen by on-site medical staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most operators in this burgeoning industry are keen to emphasize their products’ high quality or their company’s good works, as they seek money. Ro, a telehealth firm offering GLP-1s, said its marketing campaign in the New York City subway “aims to start an important, sometimes difficult, conversation focused on de-stigmatizing obesity as a condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This widespread tactic is nothing short of maddening for pharma industry critics. “They talk about trying to destigmatize obesity at the same time they’re talking about losing weight. They’re co-opting the concept,” said Judy Butler, a research fellow at \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/home?authuser=0\">PharmedOut\u003c/a>, a Georgetown University Medical Center project focusing on evidence-based practices for drugs. “They’re trying to sell a weight-loss drug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California experienced a brutally wet winter. But all that rainfall is paving the way for a beautiful Bay Area spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rain from the winter storms has brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">gushing waterfalls, meadows with carpets of blooming wildflowers and sprouting mushrooms\u003c/a> — the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">a recent radio show from KQED Forum\u003c/a>. Keep reading for our guide to the best Bay Area hikes near you as recommended in that conversation, if you’d like to experience some of these wonders for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waterfalls are supercharged right now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re planning to visit one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">these locations to look for wildflowers\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">chase waterfalls at one of California’s many beautiful parks\u003c/a>, be sure to check the park website to make sure the trails are open — or whether you need a reservation for parking. Bring plenty of water, sunscreen or a hat, hiking boots and a change of shoes, and don’t forget to stay on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor-guide author Tracy Salcedo recommends heading out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=481\">Sugarloaf Ridge State Park\u003c/a> right outside Kenwood. “There’s a waterfall there that is just supercharged right now because of all the rain that we’ve got,” she said. The park is expected to dry out a little over the coming weeks, but for now expect some muddy trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982270 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"A waterfall over rocky cliffs into a pool, view with bright orange flowers in the foreground and a reddish cliff with green chapparral beyond it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-768x542.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-2048x1444.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-500115483-1-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alamere Falls at Point Reyes National Seashore. \u003ccite>(Sean Duan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salcedo has written multiple books about hiking in California, including \u003cem>Hiking Waterfalls in Northern California: A Guide to the Region’s Best Waterfall Hikes\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expects that the waterfalls will stay robust for the bulk of the summer since we’ve had an abundance of rain to fuel them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other waterfall locations recommended on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">Forum’s show about post-rain hikes\u003c/a> include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.marincounty.org/parkspreserves/preserves/cascade-canyon\">Cascade Canyon Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/uvas-canyon-county-park\">Uvas Canyon County Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/alamere_falls.htm\">Alamere Falls\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/cataract-falls-trail\">Cataract Falls\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Wildflowers are starting to bloom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You might already have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">the beautiful wildflowers now blooming in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. The best part is they might be around longer this year compared to last year, due to the rain and cold we’ve been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California boasts about 6,500 species of plants, 1,600 endemic bees and about 1,300 butterflies and moths. Our state is truly “a biodiversity hot spot,” Radhika Thekkath, president of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">KQED Forum. \u003c/a>[aside postID='science_1981882']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thekkath recommends a number of places to see wildflowers starting to bloom around Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/san-bruno-mountain-park-trails\">San Bruno Mountain\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/edgewood-park-natural-preserve\">Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/pulgas-ridge\">Pulgas Ridge Reserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/2088/2028\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981893 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies in a field. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, Thekkath said, you’ll see a lot of different species of poppies, lupines, fiddlenecks and goldfields. But compared to this time last year, we’re seeing only about 50% of the species blooming, since last year was a drier and warmer winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Thekkath assured KQED Forum listeners, people can still expect more spectacular blooms all over California because of the colder winter this year. They’re just … slightly delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thekkath reminded listeners to stay on trails and not step into meadows, which can cause tremendous damage you can’t see. You’re not just threatening the millions of seeds lying in there, waiting for the right moment to germinate, but you could also be “destroying bees, caterpillars, butterflies and insects that rely on these wildflowers to support our local ecology,” she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want even more wildflower hike tips? Read our full guide, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">Where to See Wildflowers Near You in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where to see mushrooms sprouting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The wet year has also extended the mushroom season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally this time of year, it would be at the end of the season,” J.R. Blair, amateur mycologist and retired lecturer in biology at San Francisco State University, told KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said that right now, you’ll be able to spot \u003ca href=\"https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/273265#:~:text=The%20golden%20chanterelle%20lives%20up,excellent%20mushroom%20for%20culinary%20purposes.\">chanterelles\u003c/a>, which have begun to sprout earlier. People should also be looking for yellowfoots and black trumpets, two really good edible mushrooms that can be found fruiting in numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 724px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1251195964.jpg\" alt=\"Mushrooms in the forest.\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1251195964.jpg 724w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1251195964-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three chanterelle mushrooms in the forest. \u003ccite>(Tsvetomir Hristov/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blair recommended visiting places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453\">Salt Point State Park\u003c/a>, which allow mushroom collecting in limited amounts. He reminded people to be sure to check the park websites for any closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Never gone foraging before and want to try it? Blair advises going on trips with local \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/\">mycological societies\u003c/a>, where you can learn from people who are more knowledgeable — and, most importantly, who can teach you how to identify the mushrooms you definitely should \u003cem>not\u003c/em> eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you need to do, in essence, is to not only learn the characteristics of the edible species but learn the characteristics of the poisonous lookalikes,” said Blair.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hikes that offer the ‘3 W’s’: Wildflowers, wildlife and wows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Brad Day, publisher for \u003ca href=\"https://www.weekendsherpa.com/\">WeekendSherpa.com\u003c/a>, recommended that KQED Forum listeners head out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sunol\">Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve in the East Bay\u003c/a> to see some tremendous wildflowers blooming right now. Specifically, he recommends you \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/np-vc-sunol-month-flyer-progams-n2.pdf\">register for the guided wildflower walks in the Little Yosemite area (PDF)\u003c/a> as a great way to learn about the local fauna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/canyon-view-trail-to-little-yosemite--2\">Canyon View Trail to Little Yosemite\u003c/a> brings you through beautiful woodlands and hills, with serene canyon views and a lush stream. Be sure to check out the website for closures and parking fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1332868867.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Reyes National Seashore from Chimney Rock Trail at sunset, in the winter of 2021. \u003ccite>(Conrad J Camit/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/chimney_rock.htm\">Chimney Rock in Point Reyes\u003c/a> is another spot Day recommends. He says such places have the “three W’s” going for them: “It has the wildflowers, has the wildlife and it has the wowing views,” said Day. And once we get some warmer weather, there will be a bounty of wildflowers at Chimney Rock through the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, from January through May, there’s a chance you might see migrating gray whales as they head up to Alaska. “In the spring, they usually have had their babies or their calves, so they’re sticking a little bit closer to shore,” said Day. “So your chance of seeing them are a little bit better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Chimney Rock is a great place to spot elephant seals. Overall, said Day, Point Reyes is a great place to see a combination of all the wonders of spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">See a list of helpful resources and trails from Forum, including these below\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Related articles:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://friendsofedgewood.org/springtime-wildflower-hikes\">Guided wildflower hikes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebcnps.org/\">California Native Plant Society – East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnps-scv.org/\">California Native Plant Society – Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cnpsmarin.org/\">California Native Plant Society – Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://solanolandtrust.org/protected-lands/jepson-prairie\">Jepson Prairie Preserve in Solano County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/maps\">East Bay Regional Park District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Tips for your hiking plans:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check out the website of the park you plan to visit before heading out to see whether the trails are open, whether you need a reservation for parking, etc.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Always bring plenty of water.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Always bring sunscreen or a hat (or both!).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Always bring hiking boots and maybe a change of shoes for afterward.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stay on the trail and do not step into the meadows.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Foraging: Learn the characteristics of the edible species of mushrooms and the characteristics of the poisonous lookalikes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Hikes and waterfall sites in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/russian-ridge\">Russian Ridge Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yosemitehikes.com/not-yosemite/hite-cove/hite-cove.htm\">Hite Cove\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/index.htm\">Pinnacles National Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=481\">Sugarloaf Ridge State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sunol\">Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/parks/mori-point\">Mori Point\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/carson-falls-trail\">Carson Falls Trail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chimneyrockpark.com/things-to-do/views-trails/\">Chimney Rock\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/alamere_falls.htm\">Alamere Falls\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\">Muir Woods\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/carrizo-plain-national-monument\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yosemite.com/what-to-do/merced-river/\">Merced Canyon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/sierra/recarea/?recid=45748\">Hite Cove Trail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomacounty.com/outdoor-activities/kortum-trail\">Kortum Trail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/uvas-canyon-county-park\">Uvas Canyon County Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.marincounty.org/parkspreserves/preserves/cascade-canyon\">Cascade Canyon Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/san-bruno-mountain-park-trails\">San Bruno Mountain Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/edgewood-park-natural-preserve\">Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/pulgas-ridge\">Pulgas Ridge Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/2088/2028?utm_campaign=google_maps&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/almaden-quicksilver-county-park\">Almaden Quicksilver County Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/us/california/morgan-hill\">Morgan Hill\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://coepark.net/\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/mount-hamilton-1/\">Mount Hamilton\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitmendocino.com/location/anderson-valley/\">Anderson Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://hilltromper.com/Del_Puerto_Canyon\">Del Puerto Canyon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Dog-friendly Bay Area hikes and waterfall sites:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/cataract-falls-trail\">Cataract Falls Trail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/coal-creek\">Coal Creek Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/dawn-falls\">Dawn Falls Trail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7084337/berkeley-hills\">Berkeley Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/716/McLaren-Park\">McLaren Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expects that the waterfalls will stay robust for the bulk of the summer since we’ve had an abundance of rain to fuel them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other waterfall locations recommended on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">Forum’s show about post-rain hikes\u003c/a> include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.marincounty.org/parkspreserves/preserves/cascade-canyon\">Cascade Canyon Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/uvas-canyon-county-park\">Uvas Canyon County Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/alamere_falls.htm\">Alamere Falls\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/cataract-falls-trail\">Cataract Falls\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Wildflowers are starting to bloom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You might already have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">the beautiful wildflowers now blooming in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. The best part is they might be around longer this year compared to last year, due to the rain and cold we’ve been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California boasts about 6,500 species of plants, 1,600 endemic bees and about 1,300 butterflies and moths. Our state is truly “a biodiversity hot spot,” Radhika Thekkath, president of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892772/lets-go-chasing-waterfalls-and-wildflowers\">KQED Forum. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thekkath recommends a number of places to see wildflowers starting to bloom around Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/san-bruno-mountain-park-trails\">San Bruno Mountain\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/edgewood-park-natural-preserve\">Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/pulgas-ridge\">Pulgas Ridge Reserve\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/2088/2028\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981893 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1133953678-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies in a field. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, Thekkath said, you’ll see a lot of different species of poppies, lupines, fiddlenecks and goldfields. But compared to this time last year, we’re seeing only about 50% of the species blooming, since last year was a drier and warmer winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Thekkath assured KQED Forum listeners, people can still expect more spectacular blooms all over California because of the colder winter this year. They’re just … slightly delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thekkath reminded listeners to stay on trails and not step into meadows, which can cause tremendous damage you can’t see. You’re not just threatening the millions of seeds lying in there, waiting for the right moment to germinate, but you could also be “destroying bees, caterpillars, butterflies and insects that rely on these wildflowers to support our local ecology,” she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want even more wildflower hike tips? Read our full guide, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">Where to See Wildflowers Near You in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where to see mushrooms sprouting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The wet year has also extended the mushroom season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally this time of year, it would be at the end of the season,” J.R. Blair, amateur mycologist and retired lecturer in biology at San Francisco State University, told KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said that right now, you’ll be able to spot \u003ca href=\"https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/273265#:~:text=The%20golden%20chanterelle%20lives%20up,excellent%20mushroom%20for%20culinary%20purposes.\">chanterelles\u003c/a>, which have begun to sprout earlier. People should also be looking for yellowfoots and black trumpets, two really good edible mushrooms that can be found fruiting in numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 724px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1251195964.jpg\" alt=\"Mushrooms in the forest.\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1251195964.jpg 724w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-1251195964-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three chanterelle mushrooms in the forest. \u003ccite>(Tsvetomir Hristov/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blair recommended visiting places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453\">Salt Point State Park\u003c/a>, which allow mushroom collecting in limited amounts. He reminded people to be sure to check the park websites for any closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Never gone foraging before and want to try it? Blair advises going on trips with local \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/\">mycological societies\u003c/a>, where you can learn from people who are more knowledgeable — and, most importantly, who can teach you how to identify the mushrooms you definitely should \u003cem>not\u003c/em> eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you need to do, in essence, is to not only learn the characteristics of the edible species but learn the characteristics of the poisonous lookalikes,” said Blair.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hikes that offer the ‘3 W’s’: Wildflowers, wildlife and wows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Brad Day, publisher for \u003ca href=\"https://www.weekendsherpa.com/\">WeekendSherpa.com\u003c/a>, recommended that KQED Forum listeners head out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sunol\">Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve in the East Bay\u003c/a> to see some tremendous wildflowers blooming right now. Specifically, he recommends you \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/np-vc-sunol-month-flyer-progams-n2.pdf\">register for the guided wildflower walks in the Little Yosemite area (PDF)\u003c/a> as a great way to learn about the local fauna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/canyon-view-trail-to-little-yosemite--2\">Canyon View Trail to Little Yosemite\u003c/a> brings you through beautiful woodlands and hills, with serene canyon views and a lush stream. 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"content": "\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Northern California is vowing to maintain stability in abortion care in the region, should the U.S. Supreme Court decide to temporarily limit or ban the abortion medication mifepristone, while it sorts through conflicting lower court rulings over the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the legal uncertainty of recent weeks, clinicians and staff at the organization’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-northern-california/get-care/our-health-centers\">17 clinics\u003c/a>, from San Francisco to Chico to Eureka, have been training to shift their protocol for medication abortion from a two-drug regimen, to just one drug, if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know this is part of the opposition’s agenda, to create confusion and chaos,” said Gilda Gonzales, CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California. “We’re committed to never having an interruption in the care that we provide our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 55% of patients in the region opt for medication abortion, Gonzales said, which normally involves two medications: mifepristone first, to stop the pregnancy hormone progesterone; then misoprostol, to cause contractions and empty the uterus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the courts restrict access to mifepristone, the clinics will rely solely on the second drug, misoprostol. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/10/1168857095/misoprostol-only-medical-abortion\">one-drug protocol\u003c/a> is about 5% less effective than the two, though still roughly 90% effective overall in the first trimester, according to UCSF professor of obstetrics and gynecology Daniel Grossman, though it usually causes more side effects, like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and longer-lasting cramping and bleeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an American, I’m horrified,” Gonzales said, “because if judges can make decisions about drugs that have been utilized for decades based on junk science, and they come off the market, that is a really, really horrible condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s response diverges from other liberal states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration first approved mifepristone in 2000. But last fall, a group of anti-abortion physicians called into question the drug’s safety and alleged the agency’s approval of it was wrong. A federal judge in Texas agreed and on April 7 ordered the FDA to suspend availability nationwide. At the same time, a judge in the state of Washington ordered the FDA to preserve the status quo, but that ruling only applied to the 17 Democratic-led states that signed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, notably, was not one of them, a decision the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, defended on Tuesday as “intentional,” “deliberate” and “strategic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue states are dividing and conquering, he said, with some joining the Washington suit, and others like California, New York and Massachusetts pursuing a different path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Washington lawsuit is a suit against the FDA. They are suing the federal government,” he said. “We believe it’s important to have some states, including California, that continue to collaborate, partner and work with the federal government. We are doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, California started to build an emergency stockpile of both abortion medications, with the state receiving 250,000 pills of misoprostol last week, with the ability to obtain another 2 million if needed. Gov. Gavin Newsom even implied the state could “set up shop here” and manufacture the medications under California’s generic drug label, CalRx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And don’t think for a second we don’t have more ideas,” Newsom said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas lawsuit is now before the Supreme Court, which has until Friday evening to either extend a stay that maintains availability of mifepristone while the case moves through the court system, or let it expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the justices do tell the FDA to restrict mifepristone, the agency could use its discretion and choose not to invest time or money in enforcing the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody who speeds gets pulled over. Not everybody who smokes marijuana gets arrested. So the FDA could make off-label use of mifepristone a low priority,” UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler said. From there, “it would depend on the comfort level” of pharmacies, doctors and clinics in California, to decide whether they want to count on the FDA looking the other way or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood’s Northern California clinics won’t defy court orders, Gonzales said, because of the intense political spotlight her organization is under and its continued reliance on federal funding that is routinely under threat. If there is any kind of limit put on mifepristone, for any period of time, she said, they will quickly move to a misoprostol-only protocol until the legal matters are fully resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us to be stewing or circling in non-clarity will not serve our patients well,” she said. “It is not a surrendering. It is a radical decision for non-interruption.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://idsw.darksky.org/\">International Dark Sky Week\u003c/a> — the annual celebration of the night sky, to raise awareness of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945083/in-search-of-bright-stars-can-the-bay-area-reduce-its-worsening-light-pollution\">light pollution\u003c/a> globally — is April 15–22. And with the new moon approaching, it’s a perfect time to embrace and appreciate our sparkling, enchanting night skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to plan a stargazing trip this year, or just get outside and enjoy the view at a stargazing spot near you, keep reading for a guide to the astronomical events to look for this year — with some night photography tips to keep handy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#annulareclipse\">The big event: October’s eclipse\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#wherefinddarkskies\">Where to find dark skies near you\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#nightphotography\">Expert tips for photographing the night sky\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Meteor showers to watch for\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meteors are small chunks of dirt and dust that were freed up from comets or asteroids that are in orbit around the solar system. The earth intersects with this swarm of dust, and the dust hits Earth’s atmosphere and burns up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ben-burress\">Ben Burress\u003c/a>, staff astronomer at \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>, there will be four meteor showers this year that will be worth planning for in the Bay Area and beyond … if \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/karlthefog/?hl=en\">Karl the Fog\u003c/a> doesn’t get in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/lyrids.html\">See the Lyrids April 21–22, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982233/the-lyrids-meteor-shower-adds-its-own-fiery-blossoms-to-april-skies\">Lyrids meteor shower\u003c/a> will begin to have excellent visibility during the evening of April 21, and will peak going into the morning of Saturday, April 22 around 2 a.m. The Lyrids will produce about 20 meteors an hour, and because the night will be moonless, it’ll make for a reliable light show. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982233/the-lyrids-meteor-shower-adds-its-own-fiery-blossoms-to-april-skies\">Read more details on how to watch the Lyrids meteor shower with this guide from Burress.\u003c/a>[aside postID=science_1982233 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/651338main_iss030e260480_rotated_full-NASA-JSC-D.-Pettit-1020x766.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/eta-aquarids.html\">See the Eta Aquarids May 5–6, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak from 3 a.m. until 6 a.m. on Saturday, May 6, producing around 60 meteors per hour. The Eta Aquarids is one of two meteor showers created by debris from Comet Halley. Note that there will be a full moon that night, and its light will probably be competing with the meteors. This means your visibility might be low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html\">See the Perseids Aug. 12–13, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 12 and 13, the Perseids meteor shower, one of the more popular showers occurring in the summer, will be visible in our night skies. It will peak at around 3 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 13, producing 50 to 100 meteors per hour. There will be a relatively new moon, so not a lot of moonlight will disrupt the view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/geminids.html\">See the Geminids Dec. 13–14, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other meteor showers, the Geminids are associated with an asteroid called the 3200 Phaethon, instead of a comet. The Geminids produce up to 120 meteors per hour, and a moonless night will again make this worth watching out for. “It’s pretty active and it’s usually nice dark skies because it’s in the winter,” Burress said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supermoons to see starting in July\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to these meteor showers, we’ll also be able to see \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmersalmanac.com/supermoon-11971#:~:text=The%20first%20is%20on%20July,19th%20in%20Pacific%20Time%20Zone).\">four supermoons this year, in July, August and September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supermoons look slightly larger and brighter than your average full moon and are always a spectacle if you get the chance to see them on a clear night. They’re hard to miss.[aside postID=news_11945083 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-griffin-wooldridge-5111788-1020x620.jpg']The first supermoon will be on July 3, and called the buck moon. The sturgeon moon will be visible on Aug. 1, the blue moon on Aug. 31, and the last of the four, the harvest moon, will illuminate our skies on Sept. 29. \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmersalmanac.com/supermoon-11971#:~:text=The%20first%20is%20on%20July,19th%20in%20Pacific%20Time%20Zone).\">Read more about the four supermoons to watch for in 2023.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"annulareclipse\">\u003c/a>The big event: October’s annular solar eclipse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 14, 2023, we will be able to experience an \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2023/oct-14-annular/overview/\">annular solar eclipse\u003c/a>. Unlike a total solar eclipse, where the sun is fully covered by the moon, during an annular eclipse the moon is a little bit further away in its orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it doesn’t quite cover the sun, but it leaves the ring of fire around the dark circle of the moon,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fraknoi.com/\">Andrew Fraknoi\u003c/a>, an astronomer and board member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/\">SETI Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eclipse, which will happen on a Saturday, will chart a path under which you can see it from Oregon all the way to Texas. The Bay Area won’t be in the path of totality, but we will see a partial eclipse, where part of the sun will be covered by the moon, making it notably dimmer outside. \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2023/oct-14-annular/overview/\">See a map of the annular eclipse’s path on the “Where & When” tab from this guide at NASA.gov.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burress says the moon will block out about 80% of the sun in the morning of Oct. 14 from about 8:05 a.m. to 10:42 a.m. The mid-eclipse, where the sun will mostly be covered, will be around 9:20 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982248\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a total solar eclipse when the sun is fully blocked by the moon to create a dark sky. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/GettyImages-838972500-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 total solar eclipse. \u003ccite>(Jorge Villalba/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017\">The last time we had a total eclipse of the sun over the United States\u003c/a> was in 2017, an event that awed the nation. Next year, on April 8, 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2024/apr-8-total/where-when/\">a total eclipse will be visible in the U.S.\u003c/a> once again, starting over Texas and traversing northeast toward Canada, Fraknoi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fraknoi is one of the principals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.moore.org/grant-detail?grantId=GBMF10756\">an eclipse education project as part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation\u003c/a> that will be distributing 5 million safe-viewing eclipse glasses and information materials through 10,000 public libraries nationwide. During a solar eclipse, it is never safe to look directly at the sun without solar-filtered eyewear designed for solar viewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations across North America, including the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the National Science Teaching Association, are gearing up to help train eclipse “explainers” and disseminate reliable information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"wherefinddarkskies\">\u003c/a>Where to find dark skies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The general advice for success in stargazing is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945083/in-search-of-bright-stars-can-the-bay-area-reduce-its-worsening-light-pollution\">find a dark spot, away from city lights\u003c/a>. Once you’ve found it, give your eyes a chance to get adapted, and then look all over the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like Henry W. Coe State Park in the South Bay, Skyline Boulevard in Oakland and Mount Diablo in the East Bay, Mount Tamalpais and Point Reyes in Marin County, and Bodega Bay in Sonoma County in the North Bay have especially dark skies and optimal conditions for stargazing. On the peninsula, Pescadero and the Santa Cruz Mountains are good spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re willing to drive a bit further, you can head out of the Bay Area to places like Pinnacles National Park, Death Valley, Yosemite or other national parks that usually have less light pollution. Or, \u003ca href=\"https://darksitefinder.com/dark-sites/list-of-dark-sites/\">refer to a dark sky map\u003c/a> to find out where you’ll have the best view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can join a free telescope viewing at \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/events/events-listing/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a> in Oakland. On the peninsula, there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://foothill.edu/astronomy/observatory.html\">Foothill College Observatory\u003c/a> in Los Altos Hills, and in the North Bay you can go to the Robert Ferguson Observatory in Sonoma County, which regularly has telescope viewings available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982247\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A person is looking through a telescope.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayleen Mojica, 21, laughs as she peers at Venus through the 8-inch Alvan Clark Refractor telescope at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or you could join an astronomy club, like the \u003ca href=\"https://sfaa-astronomy.org/\">San Francisco Amateur Astronomers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are actually hundreds of clubs of astronomy enthusiasts around the country. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"wherefinddarkskies\">\u003c/a>Where to find dark skies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The general advice for success in stargazing is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945083/in-search-of-bright-stars-can-the-bay-area-reduce-its-worsening-light-pollution\">find a dark spot, away from city lights\u003c/a>. Once you’ve found it, give your eyes a chance to get adapted, and then look all over the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like Henry W. Coe State Park in the South Bay, Skyline Boulevard in Oakland and Mount Diablo in the East Bay, Mount Tamalpais and Point Reyes in Marin County, and Bodega Bay in Sonoma County in the North Bay have especially dark skies and optimal conditions for stargazing. On the peninsula, Pescadero and the Santa Cruz Mountains are good spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re willing to drive a bit further, you can head out of the Bay Area to places like Pinnacles National Park, Death Valley, Yosemite or other national parks that usually have less light pollution. Or, \u003ca href=\"https://darksitefinder.com/dark-sites/list-of-dark-sites/\">refer to a dark sky map\u003c/a> to find out where you’ll have the best view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can join a free telescope viewing at \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/events/events-listing/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a> in Oakland. On the peninsula, there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://foothill.edu/astronomy/observatory.html\">Foothill College Observatory\u003c/a> in Los Altos Hills, and in the North Bay you can go to the Robert Ferguson Observatory in Sonoma County, which regularly has telescope viewings available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982247\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A person is looking through a telescope.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/RS63098_02172023_chabotastronomy-040-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayleen Mojica, 21, laughs as she peers at Venus through the 8-inch Alvan Clark Refractor telescope at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or you could join an astronomy club, like the \u003ca href=\"https://sfaa-astronomy.org/\">San Francisco Amateur Astronomers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are actually hundreds of clubs of astronomy enthusiasts around the country. And in the Bay Area, we have a very rich collection of astronomy clubs,” said Fraknoi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find other fellow astronomy enthusiasts on \u003ca href=\"https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm\">NASA’s Night Sky Network\u003c/a>, many of whom host star parties and astronomy events, including camping trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"nightphotography\">\u003c/a>Tips for taking photos of stars and meteor showers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shreeniclix.com/\">Shreenivasan Manievannan\u003c/a>, a professional photographer and Bay Area resident, has been an advocate at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.darksky.org/\">International Dark-Sky Association\u003c/a> since 2014. He’s involved with public outreach activities that promote the protection of our dark skies. This includes sharing his love of astrophotography through photos and time-lapse videos of the amazing views of our cosmos and organizing workshops about the importance of our dark skies at public libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those interested in taking photos of the night sky, Manievannan says you should first understand which camera suits your need and what you are trying to capture. 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"content": "\u003cp>A month into spring, something more than flowers are popping up — or down — meteors! Like pale night-blooming petals falling from a celestial tree, the annual Lyrids meteor shower will cascade over our heads from late evening on April 21 through early morning on Saturday, April 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s how to see the meteors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best time to watch for Lyrids meteors is after midnight on the morning of Saturday, April 22. At this time, the area of the sky the meteors appear to streak from, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/lyra-constellation/\"> constellation Lyra\u003c/a>, is rising in the east, and by 2 a.m. will be positioned high in the southeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1131px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982236 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am.jpg\" alt=\"Black night dotted by white starts and a directional axis across the bottom, showing NE in the lower left, E and SE to the right. \" width=\"1131\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am.jpg 1131w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1131px) 100vw, 1131px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The southeastern sky on the morning of April 22 at about 2 a.m. Look for the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra to gaze at the radiant point of the Lyrids meteor shower. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Made using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Find a place with a good view of the southeastern sky, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\">as far from city lights\u003c/a> as possible, and center your sight on the star Vega, the brightest in Lyra and one of the brightest stars of the night sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, watch and wait — and pay attention to your peripheral vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the meteors’ point of origin is in Lyra, the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky. In fact, the meteor trails will be longer and more visible the farther they are from their “\u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/radiant-point-of-meteor-showers/\">radiant point\u003c/a>” in Lyra since you’re looking at them from the side instead of head-on. \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/lyrids/in-depth/\">The Lyrids shower\u003c/a> produces up to 18 meteors per hour around its peak of activity, under good seeing conditions and dark, clear skies. The moon won’t be in the sky, only three days past its new phase, so moonlight will not interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live under city skies \u003ca href=\"https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/\">inundated by scattered light\u003c/a>, you may miss out on the fainter meteors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the Bay Area has numerous places within a 20- to 30-minute drive that are partly sheltered from light pollution, if you’re willing to make the late-night trip. In the South Bay, Henry W. Coe State Park is a favorite dark-sky watching location. On the peninsula, there are numerous spots from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward along Skyline Boulevard for a pullover with partial protection from city light. In the East Bay, go for the Sunol area, Mount Diablo or a ridgeline pullout along the East Bay hills from Tilden Park southward into Hayward. In the North Bay, you can find miles of darkened rural skies from the coast eastward.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is a meteor shower?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">meteor\u003c/a> is a small piece of rock or metal, usually not much bigger than a pebble, that can be seen as it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere. Hitting the thin air 30 to 50 miles above Earth’s surface at speeds of tens of miles per second, each dust speck vaporizes to incandescence in a flash, leaving a glowing trail across the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 632px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982240 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/lyrid_shower.jpg\" alt=\"Bright white lights with long tails against a dark blue image. \" width=\"632\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/lyrid_shower.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/lyrid_shower-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-exposure image of the sky during the 2012 Lyrids meteor shower. \u003ccite>(NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/meteor-shower/en/\">meteor \u003ci>shower\u003c/i>\u003c/a> happens when Earth passes through a trail of dust left behind in the wake of a comet. Comets are large chunks of rock, ice and other frozen materials, as well as a smattering of dust. A typical comet is several miles in diameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&condition_1=102%3Aparent_id&condition_2=comet%3Abody_type%3Ailike\">comet\u003c/a> passes close to the sun, it is warmed and some of its ice sublimates into gas, blowing into space and carrying dust with it. Over time, the dust spreads out into a trail along the parent comet’s orbital path.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where do the Lyrids come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Every year, as Earth orbits the sun, it passes through the dust trail of one comet or another, and we see a meteor shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comet that left behind the dust for the Lyrids shower is called \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/c-1861-g1-thatcher/in-depth/\">C/1861 G1 (Thatcher)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982241 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image that shows a hazy gas tail and a more diffuse dust tail. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1104\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail-768x1060.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram of a comet showing its icy nucleus, its ion and dust tails, and the trail of dust it leaves behind in its orbital path. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one alive today has seen Thatcher, which was discovered in 1861 by astronomer A.E. Thatcher when it last passed close to the sun. And no one alive now will ever see it. Thatcher takes over 415 years to orbit the sun, and won’t come close enough for us to witness until the year 2283!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as you lie on your blanket under the early morning sky, waiting for the next meteor flare to delight, think about how each one you see was left behind by a comet over 160 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone in a flash, but living on in our wonder.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A month into spring, something more than flowers are popping up — or down — meteors! Like pale night-blooming petals falling from a celestial tree, the annual Lyrids meteor shower will cascade over our heads from late evening on April 21 through early morning on Saturday, April 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s how to see the meteors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best time to watch for Lyrids meteors is after midnight on the morning of Saturday, April 22. At this time, the area of the sky the meteors appear to streak from, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/lyra-constellation/\"> constellation Lyra\u003c/a>, is rising in the east, and by 2 a.m. will be positioned high in the southeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1131px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982236 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am.jpg\" alt=\"Black night dotted by white starts and a directional axis across the bottom, showing NE in the lower left, E and SE to the right. \" width=\"1131\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am.jpg 1131w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/Lyrids-Stellarium-April22-2am-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1131px) 100vw, 1131px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The southeastern sky on the morning of April 22 at about 2 a.m. Look for the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra to gaze at the radiant point of the Lyrids meteor shower. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Made using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Find a place with a good view of the southeastern sky, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\">as far from city lights\u003c/a> as possible, and center your sight on the star Vega, the brightest in Lyra and one of the brightest stars of the night sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, watch and wait — and pay attention to your peripheral vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the meteors’ point of origin is in Lyra, the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky. In fact, the meteor trails will be longer and more visible the farther they are from their “\u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/radiant-point-of-meteor-showers/\">radiant point\u003c/a>” in Lyra since you’re looking at them from the side instead of head-on. \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/lyrids/in-depth/\">The Lyrids shower\u003c/a> produces up to 18 meteors per hour around its peak of activity, under good seeing conditions and dark, clear skies. The moon won’t be in the sky, only three days past its new phase, so moonlight will not interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live under city skies \u003ca href=\"https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/\">inundated by scattered light\u003c/a>, you may miss out on the fainter meteors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the Bay Area has numerous places within a 20- to 30-minute drive that are partly sheltered from light pollution, if you’re willing to make the late-night trip. In the South Bay, Henry W. Coe State Park is a favorite dark-sky watching location. On the peninsula, there are numerous spots from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward along Skyline Boulevard for a pullover with partial protection from city light. In the East Bay, go for the Sunol area, Mount Diablo or a ridgeline pullout along the East Bay hills from Tilden Park southward into Hayward. In the North Bay, you can find miles of darkened rural skies from the coast eastward.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is a meteor shower?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">meteor\u003c/a> is a small piece of rock or metal, usually not much bigger than a pebble, that can be seen as it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere. Hitting the thin air 30 to 50 miles above Earth’s surface at speeds of tens of miles per second, each dust speck vaporizes to incandescence in a flash, leaving a glowing trail across the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 632px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982240 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/lyrid_shower.jpg\" alt=\"Bright white lights with long tails against a dark blue image. \" width=\"632\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/lyrid_shower.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/lyrid_shower-160x122.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-exposure image of the sky during the 2012 Lyrids meteor shower. \u003ccite>(NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/meteor-shower/en/\">meteor \u003ci>shower\u003c/i>\u003c/a> happens when Earth passes through a trail of dust left behind in the wake of a comet. Comets are large chunks of rock, ice and other frozen materials, as well as a smattering of dust. A typical comet is several miles in diameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&condition_1=102%3Aparent_id&condition_2=comet%3Abody_type%3Ailike\">comet\u003c/a> passes close to the sun, it is warmed and some of its ice sublimates into gas, blowing into space and carrying dust with it. Over time, the dust spreads out into a trail along the parent comet’s orbital path.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where do the Lyrids come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Every year, as Earth orbits the sun, it passes through the dust trail of one comet or another, and we see a meteor shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comet that left behind the dust for the Lyrids shower is called \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/c-1861-g1-thatcher/in-depth/\">C/1861 G1 (Thatcher)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982241 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image that shows a hazy gas tail and a more diffuse dust tail. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1104\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/04/comettail-768x1060.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram of a comet showing its icy nucleus, its ion and dust tails, and the trail of dust it leaves behind in its orbital path. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one alive today has seen Thatcher, which was discovered in 1861 by astronomer A.E. Thatcher when it last passed close to the sun. And no one alive now will ever see it. Thatcher takes over 415 years to orbit the sun, and won’t come close enough for us to witness until the year 2283!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as you lie on your blanket under the early morning sky, waiting for the next meteor flare to delight, think about how each one you see was left behind by a comet over 160 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone in a flash, but living on in our wonder.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three little girls gathered around 20-year-old Charlotte Bleu at a preschool in San José, and squealed, “I like Miss Charlotte! She’s a good teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bleu beamed, as she looked down at her doting students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s grateful her life is back on track, just a few years after struggling with depression and numbing her pain with heroin and crystal meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a plan one day to try to commit suicide, and my plan was to use fentanyl to do it,” said Bleu, recalling a moment of despair when she was just 18. “I wanted all my problems to go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, fentanyl, which can be up to 50 times more potent than heroin, was \u003ca href=\"https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=CA\">responsible for roughly 20% of deaths among 15- to 24-year-olds in California\u003c/a>. That same year, the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=CA\">overall fentanyl-related death toll\u003c/a> was more than six times higher than just three years earlier.[aside postID=news_11945418 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63872_012_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023-qut-1020x680.jpg']While overdose deaths among young people have skyrocketed across the country in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-age-group/?dataView=1¤tTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\">rates in the Golden State are even higher than the national average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night Bleu smoked fentanyl for the first time, she overdosed. “I was out for 30 minutes,” she said. “It was crazy. I almost didn’t survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bleu’s friends eventually sprayed three doses of \u003ca href=\"https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/naloxone\">Narcan\u003c/a>, which reverses opioid overdoses, into her nose to restore her breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the beginning of her downward spiral into fentanyl addiction. It was cheap and easy to buy from street dealers in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Every time she tried to quit, withdrawal symptoms — like intense itching, nausea and cold sweats — struck with a vengeance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember laying in bed all day feeling like complete garbage and not knowing if I was going to make it out or not,” Bleu said. “Every few days I would just give up and smoke again because I couldn’t handle the feeling of withdrawal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she had to lose everything before she sought help. “I lost my car, I lost my friends, my boyfriend. I just kind of lost touch with myself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bleu was able to start getting help through a Santa Clara County drug counselor who eventually directed her to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scvmc.org/hospitals-clinics/valley-homeless-health-care-program-vhhp\">new treatment program for youth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were there for me when no one else was,” said Bleu. “They helped me get on Suboxone to get off of the drugs, and help with the withdrawals.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Lee Trope, pediatrician, San José\"]‘We’ve been shocked by how many teens and young adults in the community have come to us desperate for help … Some of them are using every two to three hours, like 10 fentanyl pills a day.’[/pullquote]Suboxone, the brand name of the drug \u003ca href=\"https://psychiatry.uams.edu/clinical-care/cast/buprenorphine/\">buprenorphine\u003c/a>, is available as a pill or as a film that dissolves under the tongue. 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"content": "\u003cp>Few laws have been as successful, or saved the United States as much money, as the \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL30853\">Clean Air Act (PDF)\u003c/a>. First enacted in 1955, the act was a response to alarming disasters like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5922205/\">Donora Smog\u003c/a> of 1948 in Western Pennsylvania and 1952’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-20615186\">Great Smog of London\u003c/a>, where thick dirty air from factories and vehicles enveloped communities for days and caused widespread deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress intended for the act to be frequently reevaluated and, if necessary, updated. The Environmental Protection Agency sets legal limits for how much pollution air districts are allowed to let into the air. Currently, the EPA is proposing tightening the standard for tiny particulates floating in the air, originating from motors, engines and fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updating and tightening the standard is very popular among public health professionals, air regulators and the environmental justice community, who point to a mountain of evidence that this pollution takes lives early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2023-03-28%20AGO%20Coalition%20-%20PM%20NAAQS%20Comment%20Letter.pdf\">with 17 other attorneys general, also supports limit tightening (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the environmental justice community, concerned about the disproportionate air pollution burden that many lower-income communities and communities of color live with, would like to see standards tightened even further. In California, that’s especially true in the San Joaquin Valley and the South Coast Air Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have had lowered standards years ago. It’s a relief to see it now being proposed,” said Genevieve Amsalem, research and policy director at the Central California Environmental Justice Network. “Any time that you lower that standard, you’re going to be saving lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She considers bad air the region’s biggest environmental public health threat, one that especially affects communities of color.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Genevieve Amsalem, research and policy director, Central California Environmental Justice Network\"]‘Everyone knows a parent who has brought their baby, or their 2-year-old, into the ER because they couldn’t breathe. You know, the baby’s turning blue. It’s a story you hear across generations.’[/pullquote]“Everyone knows a parent who has brought their baby, or their 2-year-old, into the ER because they couldn’t breathe. You know, the baby’s turning blue,” Amsalem said. “It’s a story you hear across generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data backs up this impression: Counties in the San Joaquin Valley consistently have among the \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/dirty-air-and-disasters-sending-kids-to-the-er-for-asthma/\">worst rates of childhood asthma\u003c/a> in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are worries among the fire science community that the EPA’s proposed rule could have its opposite intended effect. They worry it may leave the state with ultimately worse air in the long run by stifling the use of prescribed fire. The ultimate outcome will affect everyone living in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfire is really challenging the paradigm that is at the core of the Clean Air Act — that emissions can be controlled,” said Michael Wara, an energy and climate scholar at Stanford University in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA1wg9yzGxM&t=32s\">a presentation to students and researchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfire emissions are not being successfully controlled. They’re growing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clean Air Act was written during a time when smokestack air pollution was the key problem standing in the way of healthy air, and the U.S. Forest Service could seemingly put any wildfire out by \u003ca href=\"https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/u-s-forest-service-fire-suppression/#:~:text=In%201935%2C%20the%20Forest%20Service,eliminate%20fire%20from%20the%20landscape.\">10 a.m. the next day\u003c/a>. All over the country, wildfires bent more or less easily to the will of firefighters, and the big sources of pollution could be regulated at the emission’s source. But that was a different climate reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Clean air keeps people out of hospitals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, with \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44840/4\">emissions from the worst pollutants down by more than 70% (PDF)\u003c/a>, the EPA estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-costs-clean-air-act-1990-2020-second-prospective-study#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20the%20Clean%20Air,reductions%20in%20ambient%20particulate%20matter\">the Clean Air Act saves 230,000 lives annually\u003c/a> and hundreds of thousands more from asthma, bronchitis and heart attacks. Public health experts estimate the benefits of all these lives saved and hospital visits avoided into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-costs-clean-air-act-1970-1990-study-design-and-summary-results\">many trillions of dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires are now a major producer of both carbon emissions and tiny specks of sooty pollutants known as PM 2.5. A 2022 study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29623-8\">wildfire pollution was beginning to reverse decades of clean air gains\u003c/a>. (Researchers at Stanford in 2020 had \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5134m9d8/qt5134m9d8.pdf?t=qpc4ro\">similar findings [PDF]\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s plan would update its standard for PM 2.5.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"air-quality\"]Shorthand for “particulate matter of 2.5 microns in size or less,” PM 2.5 is a class of pollutants based on dimensions rather than origin or chemical makeup. It would take about 30 of them lined up to cross the width of a human hair. It’s their size that’s the key problem: It allows them to get deep into the lungs and even cross into the bloodstream, causing heart and respiratory problems. In short, it’s a terrible pollutant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public comment on the proposal closed late last month, and the EPA is now deciding whether and how to implement revisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/epa-researchers-contribute-american-thoracic-society-workshop-report-wildland-fire\">a third of the PM 2.5 we breathe in this country is from wildfires\u003c/a>. For those in the West during wildfire season, it can be 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if wildfire trends continue and worsen, as climate models suggest they will, then we’ve seen nothing yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid the worst outcomes, Wara of Stanford points to the need to dramatically increase the use of prescribed fire in pyro-adapted landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the best hopes that we have for reducing public health impacts from wildfire and [general] impacts from wildfire have to do with substituting prescribed fire emission for high-intensity wildfire emission,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The rub: Wildfire smoke vs. prescribed fire smoke\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EPA enforces its clean air standards. If air districts do not achieve these clean-air goals, then the EPA can take over air permitting within a district and even impose a ban on new federal highway grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, EPA officials recognize that sometimes air districts are out of compliance through no fault of their own. In this case, they are allowed to file for an “exceptional event.” In this bureaucratic process, the “event” is linked to the cause of pollution going over the legal limit. It is meant for events that are unforeseeable and are unlikely to occur in the same location again, like a volcanic explosion. If the link can be made, then emissions from that event can be subtracted from the total, and the air district is no longer in trouble with the EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To use an analogy, if you couldn’t pay off your credit card bill some month because you had an unforeseen emergency expense, this would be the process by which you might convince the credit card company to waive that charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1970817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1970817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows neighborhoods enshrouded in smoke as the Bobcat Fire advances toward foothill cities and new evacuation order go into effect on September 13, 2020 in Monrovia, California.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows neighborhoods in Monrovia enshrouded in smoke from the Bobcat Fire on Sept. 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is a long, technically involved process. A California Air Resources Board (CARB) \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2020_Northern_California_EE_Full_Demo_Final.pdf\">exceptional events filing (PDF)\u003c/a> for ozone concentrations during the Northern California wildfires of 2020 runs 228 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, as seen by many in the wildfire science community, is that while this process essentially means air districts are not on the hook for wildfire smoke, they are on the hook for prescribed fire smoke. And prescribed fire — the most affordable, effective inoculation against future wildfires — has never been used as a basis for an exceptional event in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fire scientists and those in fire agencies worry this new rule will stifle the state and federal plans to expand the use of prescribed fire as a core strategy to stem out-of-control wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to start doing larger prescribed burns if we want to make a difference to what is actually happening on our landscape,” said Scott Stephens, fire science professor at UC Berkeley. “That just means there’s going to be more smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-prescribed-fire groups, including the National Association of Forest Service Retirees, have \u003ca href=\"https://nafsr.org/advocacy/2023/031023%20NAFSR%20response%20to%20EPA%20PM2.5%20rule%20change.pdf\">submitted comments detailing their concern (PDF)\u003c/a> that the proposed rule “will reduce the Nation’s ability to implement strategies intended to reduce unwanted wildfire effects on communities and wildlands, including barriers to increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1976585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1976585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter lights a prescribed burn in Humboldt County to reduce the underbrush without killing trees.\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prescribed burns, like this one in Humboldt County, reduce the underbrush without destroying trees. \u003ccite>(Lenya Quinn-Davidson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large group of fire specialists, including professors, cultural burners and ecologists, wrote in a comment letter to the EPA that its plan “would put the EPA on the wrong side of policies and actions planned by federal, state, local and Tribal entities to address the wildfire crisis and ultimately, to reduce harmful PM2.5 emissions and impacts by reducing wildfire smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from prescribed fires is less intense and less damaging than smoke from wildfires. Many scientists view it as \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/policy-advocacy/healthy-air-campaign/prescribed-fire-report#:~:text=Prescribed%20burns%20can%20be%20used,supporting%20ecosystem%20health%20and%20resiliency.\">a protective trade-off\u003c/a> — some pollution now in exchange for greater fire safety (and less pollution) in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Air districts supportive, with qualifications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-statement-us-epa-proposal-strengthen-health-based-standards-fine-particulate-matter\">California Air Resources Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2023/pmnaaqs_230105_2023_001-pdf.pdf?la=en\">Bay Area Air Quality Management District (PDF)\u003c/a> have submitted comments supporting a tightening of the PM 2.5 standard. In interviews with KQED, regulators from both organizations also expressed support for prescribed burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Knoderer, meteorologist at BAAQMD, said that the air district views prescribed burning as a partner and ally in lowering the risk of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can control when they’re doing the burning and we can minimize the amount of smoke that’s released,” he said. “Wildfires will put out a ton more smoke, and at that point there’s really no controlling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Bay Area nor California air regulators seem to share the worries of the fire community that the EPA will hamper the increased use of prescribed fire, however.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Charles Knoderer, meteorologist, Bay Area Air Quality Management District\"]‘We can control when they’re doing the burning and we can minimize the amount of smoke that’s released. Wildfires will put out a ton more smoke, and at that point there’s really no controlling it.’[/pullquote]Edie Chang, deputy executive officer at CARB, said her agency has heard from the prescribed-fire community and has brought up the issue in comments to the EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to see how we can streamline or make suggestions for how EPA might modify their policies or their guidance to help us be able to balance the increased use of prescribed fire that we need for forest management, for managing and reducing the catastrophic wildfires that we experience in California,” said Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expressed hope that the rule’s implementation phase, which it now heads into, would be the time for nitty-gritty details to be worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though they can be expunged from the data, residents are still feeling [the effects of wildfire] very much so,” said Amsalem, of the Central California Environmental Justice Network. She hopes agencies will work out this issue, she said, “because we do need to do more prescribed burning to reduce the catastrophic events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>EPA’s proposed workaround leaves burners skeptical\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EPA also seems aware of these concerns. In its proposed rule, it says it acknowledges stakeholder concerns about the importance of prescribed fire and intends to work with stakeholders to address these issues. It also says \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-08/documents/ee_prescribed_fire_final_guidance_-_august_2019.pdf\">prescribed fires have the potential to qualify for exceptional events (PDF)\u003c/a>, which could encourage their continued and expanded use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, this has environmental lawyers very concerned. Sara Clark of the law firm Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger works with nonprofit organizations and supports prescribed fire and Indigenous cultural burners. She thinks the EPA’s reasoning as written might not hold up under a judge’s evaluation.[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"prescribed-burning\"]“[The EPA] does a lot of linguistic acrobatics to try and clarify how a prescribed fire is … not reasonably preventable or controllable. But it’s called a ‘controlled burn,’” said Clark. “I’m concerned about the legal underpinnings there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also believes that the time and technical expertise needed to file for an exceptional event exemption would make air regulators wary of using it. Extensive documentation and analysis is needed to submit for an exceptional events determination from CARB or the EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent Government Accountability Office report echoes these concerns. The report says \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-104723.pdf\">the EPA could do a better job working with other agencies to reduce impacts from wildfires (PDF)\u003c/a>, including making it easier to conduct prescribed fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders interviewed by the GAO said that state and local agencies aren’t likely to use the exceptional events provision for prescribed burns because “the agencies would not likely approve prescribed burns that could cause National Ambient Air Quality Standards exceedances in the first place.” And they said that “exceptional event demonstrations are technically complicated and resource intensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put another way, it’s more likely that prescribed burns would never happen if air regulators thought they might have to file for an exceptional event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is also legally uncharted, or nearly uncharted, territory. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-104723.pdf\">The EPA has received only one exceptional events demonstration for a prescribed burn (PDF)\u003c/a> — too much ozone was associated with prescribed burns in the Flint Hills of Kansas in December 2012. But since then, no tribal, state or local agency has submitted an exceptional event demonstration for a prescribed burn, according to EPA officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should wildfires be considered exceptional?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s proposed rule is based in part on the recommendations of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, a collection of public health experts. 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But if a wildfire is occurring, causing damage to people, burning down homes, no one’s accountable. I just don’t see how that can work.’[/pullquote]“If you do proactive work like prescribed burning, you have to justify it through a rule that is onerous,” he said. “But if a wildfire is occurring, causing damage to people, burning down homes, no one’s accountable. I just don’t see how that can work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for those affected by the worst air quality in the state, pollution is damaging whether it’s from a diesel engine, a prescribed fire or a catastrophic wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people interviewed for this story said they hope that as the EPA decides how to implement the rule over the course of this year, it will find a route that both protects public health from human-made sources like smokestacks and tailpipes and encourages proactive wildfire protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key decision is going to be what happens in the U.S. EPA, PM 2.5 rulemaking. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Few laws have been as successful, or saved the United States as much money, as the \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL30853\">Clean Air Act (PDF)\u003c/a>. First enacted in 1955, the act was a response to alarming disasters like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5922205/\">Donora Smog\u003c/a> of 1948 in Western Pennsylvania and 1952’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-20615186\">Great Smog of London\u003c/a>, where thick dirty air from factories and vehicles enveloped communities for days and caused widespread deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress intended for the act to be frequently reevaluated and, if necessary, updated. The Environmental Protection Agency sets legal limits for how much pollution air districts are allowed to let into the air. Currently, the EPA is proposing tightening the standard for tiny particulates floating in the air, originating from motors, engines and fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updating and tightening the standard is very popular among public health professionals, air regulators and the environmental justice community, who point to a mountain of evidence that this pollution takes lives early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2023-03-28%20AGO%20Coalition%20-%20PM%20NAAQS%20Comment%20Letter.pdf\">with 17 other attorneys general, also supports limit tightening (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the environmental justice community, concerned about the disproportionate air pollution burden that many lower-income communities and communities of color live with, would like to see standards tightened even further. In California, that’s especially true in the San Joaquin Valley and the South Coast Air Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Everyone knows a parent who has brought their baby, or their 2-year-old, into the ER because they couldn’t breathe. You know, the baby’s turning blue,” Amsalem said. “It’s a story you hear across generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data backs up this impression: Counties in the San Joaquin Valley consistently have among the \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/dirty-air-and-disasters-sending-kids-to-the-er-for-asthma/\">worst rates of childhood asthma\u003c/a> in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are worries among the fire science community that the EPA’s proposed rule could have its opposite intended effect. They worry it may leave the state with ultimately worse air in the long run by stifling the use of prescribed fire. The ultimate outcome will affect everyone living in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfire is really challenging the paradigm that is at the core of the Clean Air Act — that emissions can be controlled,” said Michael Wara, an energy and climate scholar at Stanford University in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA1wg9yzGxM&t=32s\">a presentation to students and researchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfire emissions are not being successfully controlled. They’re growing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clean Air Act was written during a time when smokestack air pollution was the key problem standing in the way of healthy air, and the U.S. Forest Service could seemingly put any wildfire out by \u003ca href=\"https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/u-s-forest-service-fire-suppression/#:~:text=In%201935%2C%20the%20Forest%20Service,eliminate%20fire%20from%20the%20landscape.\">10 a.m. the next day\u003c/a>. All over the country, wildfires bent more or less easily to the will of firefighters, and the big sources of pollution could be regulated at the emission’s source. But that was a different climate reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Clean air keeps people out of hospitals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, with \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44840/4\">emissions from the worst pollutants down by more than 70% (PDF)\u003c/a>, the EPA estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-costs-clean-air-act-1990-2020-second-prospective-study#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20the%20Clean%20Air,reductions%20in%20ambient%20particulate%20matter\">the Clean Air Act saves 230,000 lives annually\u003c/a> and hundreds of thousands more from asthma, bronchitis and heart attacks. Public health experts estimate the benefits of all these lives saved and hospital visits avoided into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-costs-clean-air-act-1970-1990-study-design-and-summary-results\">many trillions of dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires are now a major producer of both carbon emissions and tiny specks of sooty pollutants known as PM 2.5. A 2022 study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29623-8\">wildfire pollution was beginning to reverse decades of clean air gains\u003c/a>. (Researchers at Stanford in 2020 had \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5134m9d8/qt5134m9d8.pdf?t=qpc4ro\">similar findings [PDF]\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s plan would update its standard for PM 2.5.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Shorthand for “particulate matter of 2.5 microns in size or less,” PM 2.5 is a class of pollutants based on dimensions rather than origin or chemical makeup. It would take about 30 of them lined up to cross the width of a human hair. It’s their size that’s the key problem: It allows them to get deep into the lungs and even cross into the bloodstream, causing heart and respiratory problems. In short, it’s a terrible pollutant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public comment on the proposal closed late last month, and the EPA is now deciding whether and how to implement revisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/epa-researchers-contribute-american-thoracic-society-workshop-report-wildland-fire\">a third of the PM 2.5 we breathe in this country is from wildfires\u003c/a>. For those in the West during wildfire season, it can be 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if wildfire trends continue and worsen, as climate models suggest they will, then we’ve seen nothing yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid the worst outcomes, Wara of Stanford points to the need to dramatically increase the use of prescribed fire in pyro-adapted landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the best hopes that we have for reducing public health impacts from wildfire and [general] impacts from wildfire have to do with substituting prescribed fire emission for high-intensity wildfire emission,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The rub: Wildfire smoke vs. prescribed fire smoke\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EPA enforces its clean air standards. If air districts do not achieve these clean-air goals, then the EPA can take over air permitting within a district and even impose a ban on new federal highway grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, EPA officials recognize that sometimes air districts are out of compliance through no fault of their own. In this case, they are allowed to file for an “exceptional event.” In this bureaucratic process, the “event” is linked to the cause of pollution going over the legal limit. It is meant for events that are unforeseeable and are unlikely to occur in the same location again, like a volcanic explosion. If the link can be made, then emissions from that event can be subtracted from the total, and the air district is no longer in trouble with the EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To use an analogy, if you couldn’t pay off your credit card bill some month because you had an unforeseen emergency expense, this would be the process by which you might convince the credit card company to waive that charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1970817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1970817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows neighborhoods enshrouded in smoke as the Bobcat Fire advances toward foothill cities and new evacuation order go into effect on September 13, 2020 in Monrovia, California.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/gettyimages-1228496051-11803c34ee7e287ff491ad1597467efb869d819a-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows neighborhoods in Monrovia enshrouded in smoke from the Bobcat Fire on Sept. 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is a long, technically involved process. A California Air Resources Board (CARB) \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2020_Northern_California_EE_Full_Demo_Final.pdf\">exceptional events filing (PDF)\u003c/a> for ozone concentrations during the Northern California wildfires of 2020 runs 228 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, as seen by many in the wildfire science community, is that while this process essentially means air districts are not on the hook for wildfire smoke, they are on the hook for prescribed fire smoke. And prescribed fire — the most affordable, effective inoculation against future wildfires — has never been used as a basis for an exceptional event in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fire scientists and those in fire agencies worry this new rule will stifle the state and federal plans to expand the use of prescribed fire as a core strategy to stem out-of-control wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to start doing larger prescribed burns if we want to make a difference to what is actually happening on our landscape,” said Scott Stephens, fire science professor at UC Berkeley. “That just means there’s going to be more smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-prescribed-fire groups, including the National Association of Forest Service Retirees, have \u003ca href=\"https://nafsr.org/advocacy/2023/031023%20NAFSR%20response%20to%20EPA%20PM2.5%20rule%20change.pdf\">submitted comments detailing their concern (PDF)\u003c/a> that the proposed rule “will reduce the Nation’s ability to implement strategies intended to reduce unwanted wildfire effects on communities and wildlands, including barriers to increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1976585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1976585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter lights a prescribed burn in Humboldt County to reduce the underbrush without killing trees.\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/08/winter-oak-woodland-burning-2b67dc9298069f3e95da35a79dcd1b2aa432876f-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prescribed burns, like this one in Humboldt County, reduce the underbrush without destroying trees. \u003ccite>(Lenya Quinn-Davidson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large group of fire specialists, including professors, cultural burners and ecologists, wrote in a comment letter to the EPA that its plan “would put the EPA on the wrong side of policies and actions planned by federal, state, local and Tribal entities to address the wildfire crisis and ultimately, to reduce harmful PM2.5 emissions and impacts by reducing wildfire smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from prescribed fires is less intense and less damaging than smoke from wildfires. Many scientists view it as \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/policy-advocacy/healthy-air-campaign/prescribed-fire-report#:~:text=Prescribed%20burns%20can%20be%20used,supporting%20ecosystem%20health%20and%20resiliency.\">a protective trade-off\u003c/a> — some pollution now in exchange for greater fire safety (and less pollution) in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Air districts supportive, with qualifications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-statement-us-epa-proposal-strengthen-health-based-standards-fine-particulate-matter\">California Air Resources Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2023/pmnaaqs_230105_2023_001-pdf.pdf?la=en\">Bay Area Air Quality Management District (PDF)\u003c/a> have submitted comments supporting a tightening of the PM 2.5 standard. In interviews with KQED, regulators from both organizations also expressed support for prescribed burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Knoderer, meteorologist at BAAQMD, said that the air district views prescribed burning as a partner and ally in lowering the risk of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can control when they’re doing the burning and we can minimize the amount of smoke that’s released,” he said. “Wildfires will put out a ton more smoke, and at that point there’s really no controlling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Bay Area nor California air regulators seem to share the worries of the fire community that the EPA will hamper the increased use of prescribed fire, however.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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