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"Earth Focus" is an environmental news magazine that features investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment and how it affects people around the world.

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A member of Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation casts his net the beach. | Still from Tending Nature

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EARTH FOCUS “The Youth Climate Movement Around the World” features Alexandria Villaseñor from Paradise, California. Image courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

EARTH FOCUS “The Youth Climate Movement Around the World” features Alexandria Villaseñor from Paradise, California. Image courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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S3 E1: The Youth Climate Movement Around the World

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The pit at Malakoff Diggins during heyday of hydraulic mining. | Wikimedia Commons/Watkins Photo-Bancroft Neg. #8111/Creative Commons/Public Domain

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Mercury in Our Waters: The 10,000-Year Legacy of California’s Gold Rush

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Zebra in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

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Proposed Coal Mine Threatens UNESCO Site in South Africa

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A member of a military operation to crack down on illegal gold mining in Peru. | Max Baring/Thomson Reuters Foundation

A member of a military operation to crack down on illegal gold mining in Peru. | Max Baring/Thomson Reuters Foundation

Earth Focus

S3 E3: The Price of Gold in Peru

This episode follows chief environmental prosecutor Karina Garay as she works with the police, army and navy in destroying illegal mines and arresting miners in protected areas

A miner emerges from an abandoned mine in South Africa carrying a heavy sack of coal on his back. | Courtesy of of Thomson Reuters Foundation

A miner emerges from an abandoned mine in South Africa carrying a heavy sack of coal on his back. | Courtesy of of Thomson Reuters Foundation

Earth Focus

S3 E2: Coal Mining in South Africa

South Africa faces a stark reality as the continent’s largest greenhouse gas emitter.

EARTH FOCUS “The Youth Climate Movement Around the World” features Alexandria Villaseñor from Paradise, California. Image courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

EARTH FOCUS “The Youth Climate Movement Around the World” features Alexandria Villaseñor from Paradise, California. Image courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Earth Focus

S3 E1: The Youth Climate Movement Around the World

In-depth profiles of four young environmentalists: Alexandria Villaseñor in California, Carl Smith in Alaska, Ayakha Melithafa in South Africa and Litokne Kabua in the Marshall Islands.

Crate of abalone shells | Earth Focus

Crate of abalone shells | Earth Focus

Earth Focus

S2 E6: Dying Oceans - Abalone Restoration In California

Off the coast of California, the disappearing abalone population is raising flags about ocean health and the lasting impact of rising sea temperatures, acidification and pollution.

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S2 E5: Lighting A Path: Embracing Solar Power in California and Zanzibar

Solar power is changing lives in unexpected places.

Dairy in California | Photo by Artifact for Earth Focus

Dairy in California | Photo by Artifact for Earth Focus

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S2 E4: Dairy Alternatives - Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya

The realities of milk production are forcing dairy communities across the globe to rethink the dairy production process.

A guardian of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest watches as a fire burns the remains of lumber poachers. | Still from "Earth Focus"

A guardian of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest watches as a fire burns the remains of lumber poachers. | Still from "Earth Focus"

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S2 E3: Building A Future - Lumber Poaching In Oregon and Brazil

Following groups like “Guardians of the Forest,” we explore illegal lumber poaching in the forests of Brazil and Oregon, where citizens and scientists are working together to combat the illegal lumber trade.

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Avocados from Chile | Valeria Cardi/Thomson Reuters Foundation

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S2 E2: Avocado Wars - The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile

The global demand for avocados is having a devastating impact on a drought-stricken community in Chile.

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S2 E1: Fueling Change: Oil Extraction in Alaska and California

Global demand for oil and gas has long-lasting impacts on the communities that supply it.

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S1 E6: Urban Habitat

Los Angeles is one of the biggest biodiversity hotspots in the world, despite its smog, urban sprawl and snarling freeways.

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Faith leaders, activists and family members hold a public memorial in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco to honor 17 people who died of COVID-19 while in prison or ICE detention. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

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Health Over Punishment: Organizing Efforts to Stop ICE Transfers in California and Beyond

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The gas-powered Valley Generating Station is seen in the San Fernando Valley at sunset. | David McNew/Getty Images

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‘The Fight Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure is the Fight for Healthy Communities’

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Farm worker picking strawberries from low lying strawberry plants in Watsonville, California | David Gomez/Getty Images

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Farmworkers Are Both #AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?

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A homeless man sitting on a stoop | Ben Hershey / Unsplash

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Los Angeles California, October 8, 2020: Voting ballot material. | Jorge Villalba / iStock

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How Proposition 13 Fueled a ‘Play to Play’ Ballot Initiative System

Activist Howard Jarvis featured in THE FIRST ANGRY MAN.

Activist Howard Jarvis featured in THE FIRST ANGRY MAN.

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A roll of "I Voted" stickers | Element 5 / Unsplash

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Proposition 13 Under Increased Scrutiny as California Faces Economic Crisis

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187 poster

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187 Chapter 1 card

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The Origins of Prop 187

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187 Chapter 2 card

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Communities Divided

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187 Chapter 3 card

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Taking Action

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187 Chapter 4 card

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Signs of Change

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Los Angeles Skyline, 2019. | Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin

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Katheryn Cabanillas, a newly-divorced mom with four kids, has worked at the UPS Ontario hub for 16 years.

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Tending Nature poster 2021

Tending Nature poster 2021

Seneca white corn grown at the Cultural Conservancy. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode “Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy."

Seneca white corn grown at the Cultural Conservancy. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode “Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy."

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A group at the Cultural Conservancy removes dried grain corn from the cob to preserve the seeds in their seed library. | Still from the "Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy" episode of "Tending Nature."

A group at the Cultural Conservancy removes dried grain corn from the cob to preserve the seeds in their seed library. | Still from the "Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy" episode of "Tending Nature."

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Chiqui Diaz at work advocating to end social isolation | Courtesy of Chiqui Diaz

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A 2011 crime scene in Tulare County, where one of Jose Martinez's victims was found. | Courtesy of Marion County Sherff’s Office via FOIA/Buzzfeed

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Nurse Yvonne Yaory checks on a coronavirus patient who is connected to a ventilator. | Heidi de Marco/California Healthline

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Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. | LAist

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Nurse Michael Lowman gets the first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Christie Aiello at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Dec. 16, 2020. | Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

Nurse Michael Lowman gets the first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Christie Aiello at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Dec. 16, 2020. | Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

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Orange County Gets First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine

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A healthcare worker vaccinates an elderly person. | iStock via Getty Images

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Los Angeles City Attorney Warns Residents of COVID-19 Vaccine Scams

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Paiute man protests at the LADWP Board of Commissioners meeting | Photo: Big Pine Paiute Tribe

Paiute man protests at the LADWP Board of Commissioners meeting | Photo: Big Pine Paiute Tribe

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LADWP Finally Fixes Broken Pipeline on Big Pine Paiute Reservation

Smoke from a 2013 controlled burn | Photo: Mob Mob, some rights reserved

Smoke from a 2013 controlled burn | Photo: Mob Mob, some rights reserved

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Part of Sequoia National Park is On Fire Right Now, And For a Good Reason

Salmon jumping at the Ballard Locks, Washington | Photo: Ingrid Taylar, some rights reserved

Salmon jumping at the Ballard Locks, Washington | Photo: Ingrid Taylar, some rights reserved

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Klamath River Tribes in Crisis as Salmon Disappear

Evening in the Owens Valley, California | Image: Albert Bierstadt

Evening in the Owens Valley, California | Image: Albert Bierstadt

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