Kleinman quoted in Salton Sea article

AirUCI faculty Mike Kleinman is quoted in an August 23rd article on Undark about a new UC Riverside study of air quality at the Salton Sea.  The new recommendation is that anyone visiting the lake wear an N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma.  Mike says that the study may provide a glimpse of the future, as climate change begins to produce new and unexpected health challenges. “We are going to see novel things happening,” he said. “They may have just been the canary in the coal mine on this one.”  Read the article