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Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go May 5, 2021 2:53 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Accidents, injury and deaths on the job are common in the construction industry. Photo credit: Capt. Mark Carr, U.S. Dept. of Labor via Creative Commons
WASHINGTON In the decades since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established, there’s been a lot of progress in cutting worker deaths and injuries on the job. However, there’s still a long way to go.
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Tapped for California fish and game commission, UCSC ecologist wants to invite more voices to the table Quick Take
If her appointment is approved by the state Senate, UC Santa Cruz ecologist Erika Zavaleta would become the campus’ only faculty member actively serving on a state government commission.
Erika Zavaleta has seen California’s natural resources through many lenses as a journalist, wilderness ranger and author, and from her current role as a UC Santa Cruz professor of ecology.
Tapped by Gov. Gavin Newsom for the California Fish and Game Commission earlier this month, Zavaleta hopes to draw on that broad background as she joins a five-member panel tasked with a big job: overseeing wildlife conservation across the state. One of her primary goals as she steps onto the commission, Zavaleta said, is to open the door for a wider range of Californians to join the conversation about that subject.
The mighty kelp forests off California’s coast are highly valued as biodiverse ecosystems essential for sequestering carbon, but they have been hit hard by a range of different foes, including the ravages of heat waves, destruction by fishing and armies of voracious sea urchins. In the past century kelp forests have declined by up to 75 per cent in some areas, but new research from the University of California at Santa Cruz reveals otters may be.
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