Entomologist covering Southern California for the US Forest Service
Entomologist covering Southern California for the US Forest Service
PROFILE
Tom Coleman
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FROM Tom Coleman
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Rise of the Bark Beetle Not everyone is going to be unhappy if global warming makes California hotter and drier. Take the bark beetle, for example—when trees are stressed by drought, they’re more vulnerable to beetle attack. And right now, bark beetles are having a field day. They’ve eaten their way through 46 million of the 850 million acres of forested land from Canada to Mexico. And all those dead trees could be bad news for firefighters who are currently tackling three major wildfires in northern and central California.
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The Treatment
Hua Hsu: A Floating Chinaman Author Hua Hsu stops by to discuss his book A Floating Chinaman, recounting the life of 1930's actor/writer H.T. Tsiang and his struggles entering the American literary world.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How do Trump supporters feel about the Paris Accord? Globally and around the U.S., there are strong opinions whether or not the Paris Climate Accord is a good idea. The American exit is either a horrifying abdication of American leadership or a forceful and long overdue statement about U.S. sovereignty.
Bookworm
Claudio Magris: Blameless In Claudio Magris' Blameless, a museum of the implements of war and destruction is created to inspire peace. But this conversation is not just about war and peace.
The Business
In 'Speechless,' Scott Silveri combines comedy, family & disability Scott Silveri has written and produced sitcoms for more than 20 years. In all that time, he never encountered a TV family that looked anything like the one he grew up in -- with a mom, a dad...and a brother with cerebral palsy. He changed that with his show Speechless on ABC. Silveri tells us about looking to his own past for stories, and why he was determined to make a family comedy and not just a "disability show."