Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Melanie Michalak, associate professor and chair of the geology department at Cal Poly Humboldt.

Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Melanie Michalak, associate professor and chair of the geology department at Cal Poly Humboldt.

This week we met with Janessa Johnsrude, director of Dell’Arte’s Prison Arts Theatre program, which brings theater workshops and classes to incarcerated individuals at Pelican Bay.

On today's episode of Talk Humboldt, we begin part one of a series about what it's like teaching art and education inside Pelican Bay.

Why should we lean into ecological grief, rather than shun, fix, or repress it? What does “grief literacy” look like, and why might our ecological crisis require us to gain those skills? What does the inability to lean into grief mean for the climate crisis, and how might we collectively leverage grief for political change?

Some beach variety packs of High Noon hard seltzers included canned cocktails mislabeled as blue raspberry Celsius energy drinks. The affected lots were sent to retailers in six states last week.

After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.

President Trump, who has insisted Aug. 1 is a firm deadline for countries around the world, said that "the complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different from other Nations."