Month: November 2024
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Protecting farmworkers from health impacts of climate change
Originally published by UC Research and Innovation on October 30, 2024 By Janet Byron By Janet Byron Farmworkers are among the Californians most vulnerable to climate change. That’s especially true for those toiling in California’s semiarid Imperial Valley. “We have extreme heat, up to 120 degrees in the summer,” says Briana Sugey Toji. Toji is…