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Climate change turns up risk of heat stroke for farmworkers

August 1st, 2022
By Ricardo A Vela
The death of a farmworker on May 14, 2005, east of Stockton, California, highlighted the sufferings of day laborers during the summer. Mara Isabel Vsquez Jimnez, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, 17 years old and two months pregnant, worked in a vineyard in temperatures above 95 degrees.
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STEM - ciencia, tecnología ingeniería y matemáticas.
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Urge participación de latinos en las carreras científicas

June 28th, 2022
By Ricardo A Vela
Jess Pea, recientemente obtuvo su ttulo de doctorado en microbiologa de la Universidad de California en Riverside, y su motivacin para estudiar una carrera en ciencias la decidi desde muy joven gracias a las plticas y enseanzas que obtuvo de sus padres.
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Community members painted the first layer of a colorful mural on a wall bordering the edible garden in an Eastside neighborhood
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Riverside paints a picture of health for community garden.

June 15th, 2022
By Ricardo A Vela
In Spanish Mother Nature did her part by offering spectacular weekend weather as if she wanted to participate in the community garden events on Saturday in Riverside. Community members painted the first layer of a colorful mural on a wall bordering the edible garden in an Eastside neighborhood.
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