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Climate change and overfishing are making it harder to catch the anchovies essential to the condiment that underlies so much of Vietnam and southeast Asia's food.

Copley Library at the University of San Diego is pleased to unveil its most recent acquisition, "In Blue Time," followed by a talk given by artist Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. About the Artist: Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio is a Mexican artist whose work includes oil painting, drawing, muralism and installation. Her current work focuses on the concept of time, disability, and the transitions of change through the perspectives of her individual narrative, astro-physics, philosophy and memory. She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and her BA in Art History and Visual Arts at the University of San Diego. Ortiz-Rubio has exhibited her artwork internationally in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States, in such places as the Timken Museum of Art, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Oceanside Museum, Quint Gallery, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, and Bread&Salt Gallery among others. Her permanent public murals can be seen through out the city of San Diego and has work in the San Diego Civic Art Collection as well as the University of the Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City and now in the University of San Diego. Ortiz-Rubio partnered with the State of California for the Action Saves Lives campaign to create a mural to commemorate COVID victims and raise awareness. In addition, she was an Artist in Residence at the Timken Museum of Art, Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic, and at Bread&Salt Gallery in San Diego. She currently teaches drawing and painting at the University of San Diego.

In 1978, Congress gave federal workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, finding it in the public interest. Now Trump wants to end those labor rights for most of the federal workforce.

Join The Original 40 Brewing Company for the launch of its monthly Bike & Brews Community Ride on Tuesday, December 3, celebrating the new Pershing Bikeway. Riders will gather at the North Park brewpub, located at 3117 University Avenue, at 5:30 p.m., with the ride rolling out at 6 p.m. This 6.6-mile roundtrip ride along Pershing Drive to Bottle Rocket Bar and Grill in East Village offers an easy-to-moderate pace, making it ideal for riders of all levels. Beertender Preston Bewley will lead the ride, and participants are encouraged to bring lights and reflectors for safety. Afterward, head back to The Original 40 for a chance to win raffle prizes and enjoy a well-earned craft brew. Don’t miss this great opportunity to connect with fellow riders and explore the city on two wheels.

Climate change has impacted virtually every part of life in Greenland. The tradition of dogsledding illustrates just one aspect of what's at risk for the island as the Earth warms.

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

Real ID will be enforced in U.S. airports starting May 7. Implementing the law involved years of negotiations between federal and state officials.

Premieres Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. The film tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library Movement" to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. The guardrails that have largely kept global peace since the WWII may finally be coming off. It's not only because Donald Trump is coming back to the White House, but he will speed up the process. Francis Fukuyama from Stanford University joins the show to break it all down.

The DOJ says Maine is violating Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. Gov. Janet Mills has promised to "vigorously defend" the state.