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The 'Street Vet' provides free care to homeless people's beloved pets

Gloria Hillard

Dr. Kwane Stewart is known as the "Street Vet." He makes rounds in Los Angeles' Skid Row and provides free care to homeless people's beloved pets.

Prime farmland in Ontario, Calif., is being overtaken by warehouses

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East of Los Angeles, giant warehouses and distribution centers are replacing farms in an area known as the Inland Empire. The logistics industry is changing what was once an agricultural landscape.

'Whale Safe' Program Aims To Protect Whales From Cargo Ships

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One of the nation's busiest marine highways in southern California is trying a new program to help cargo ships avoid whales. "Whale Safe" is kind of a crossing guard to save marine mammals.

How A Group Of Dedicated Volunteers Are Keeping California's Wildfires At Bay

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The Los Angeles Fire Department depends on help from amateur radio volunteers when fire threatens communications infrastructure. NPR looks at how ham radio operators are keeping residents safe.

This Newell's shearwater chick makes its home on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The seabird is classified as "threatened," according to the Endangered Species Act.

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Threatened Hawaiian Bird Strives To Make Comeback

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One of Hawaii's most threatened seabirds, the Newell's shearwater, makes its home on the island of Kauai. Conservationists there are fighting to keep the iconic bird from disappearing.

A Senior Women's Soccer League

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As the women's World Cup continues in France, there's another group of tough athletes taking the field in the San Diego area. Many are age 70 and older. Don't even think about telling them to sit.

Outreach workers from the organization Treasures visit strip clubs to let the women working there know that help is available if they want to get out of the commercial sex industry.

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Getting Out Of The Commercial Sex Industry — With Help From Women Who've Been There

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Not all women in the commercial sex industry have been victims of sex trafficking. But that's where many victims of trafficking end up. One woman who got out has begun a program to help others.