"Life on the planet is imperiled," "we’re on the brink of collapse" and there’s "little progress on combating climate change."

That’s according to a new climate study published at the end of October by a group of renowned U.S. and global scientists, including several researchers from Oregon.

On this episode of Beat Check, The Oregonian's environmental reporter Gosia Wozniacka interviews Dr. Jillian Gregg, an ecologist and principal investigator of Corvallis-based Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates. Dr. Gregg is also the author of the climate change study.

Dr. Greggs talks about the alarming data, the transition to an economy that puts a pause on over-consumption and fossil-fuel emissions and solutions we all can participate in that will help slow climate change.

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While true crime tales have become mainstays of media and pop culture, the disturbing stories told in The Oregonian/OregonLive’s 2018 prize-winning project, “Ghosts of Highway 20″ had a particular impact on Octavia Spencer, the Oscar-winning actor, who help produce the new “Lost Women of Highway 20” documentary series for Investigation Discovery.

You can watch “Lost Women of Highway 20″ on Investigation Discovery (ID), MAX and via the Philo streaming service, which offers a free trial.

Watch The Oregonian's five-part video series "Ghosts of Highway 20" on our YouTube channel.

Read the original story on OregonLive.

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The murder of George Floyd at the hands of police set off social justice protests across the nation and in Portland. For some members of the city’s small Black community, Floyd’s death was a reminder of Portland’s painful history.

In this podcast episode, reporter Fedor Zarkhin joins Editor Therese Bottomly to talk about his recent four-part series, “The Forgotten Four,” which told of the unprecedented string of deaths of Black Portlanders at the hands of police in the 1970s.

The four deaths galvanized the Black community in a way that had never occurred before and has repercussions yet today. While the larger community of Portlanders may have forgotten the stories of the three young men and one teenager who were shot and killed in a short span of 1974 and ‘75, the memories remain fresh for family members and friends.

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We'll be back with another episode of Beat Check next week. In the meantime, don't miss the episode we published Thursday, answering your questions about the potential Portland Public Schools teachers' strike. Given the dynamic nature of that story, we wanted to bring it to you as soon as possible.

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On a special edition of The Oregonian’s Beat Check podcast, education reporter Julia Silverman and City Hall reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh answer your questions about the potential Portland Public Schools teacher strike.

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Jayati Ramakrishnan and Nicole Hayden, both staff reporters for The Oregonian/OregonLive, produced the first two parts of the newsroom’s in-depth examination of Oregon’s mental health system and its failures. Editor Therese Bottomly leads a discussion of what their findings have been so far.

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At the end of September, students from 50 school districts across the country launched a new campaign to spur climate action in classrooms, school buildings and in the job market.

In this episode of Beat Check, The Oregonian/OregonLive's environmental justice reporter Gosia Wozniacka interviews Adah Crandall, a 17-year-old youth climate organizer and recent graduate of Portland’s Grant High School. They discuss the student campaign, new legislation and recent efforts at climate change denial in classrooms across the U.S.

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Join The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss the etiquette surrounding taking your shoes off in someone else's home, what they're into and not into this week and whether you can keep someone from smoking cigarettes near your house. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!

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Four years after Portland officials passed what they hailed to be some of the strongest rules governing short-term rentals in the country, Portland’s regulation of Airbnb rentals remains fundamentally broken, a recent investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Ted Sickinger found.

On the latest Beat Check, I speak with Sickinger about how the city’s big promise to crack down on illicit Airbnbs went bust.

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Join The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss what you can do when people are making unnecessary noise in your general area. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!

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