California Proposition 31 is on the November ballot to overturn a 2020 state law banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored vapes.
Mexican migrants housed in shelters near the U.S./Mexican border encounter health issues, infections, and even death.
Purépecha community members are on the frontlines of the Salton Sea environmental and health justice crisis — one of California's worst — but they're frequently unable to participate in policy discussions regarding lithium extraction, water quality, air pollution and more.
A new study out of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa warns that 58% of the infectious diseases known to impact humans, including COVID-19, are being aggravated by climate change.
Research teams are surveilling sewage samples to detect monkeypox in local communities, continuing the advances made in the COVID-19 pandemic.
California Proposition 1 on the November ballot could make birth control access a constitutional right, alongside abortion.