What the fight to save coral reefs has in common with mental health (April 14, 2022) | Houston Public Media

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On Thursday’s Show: Houston City Hall voted unanimously to approve paid parental leave for city employees. We discuss this and other news from Wednesday’s council meeting with a reporter from News 88.7 caroline love.

And we got an update on various stories related to COVID-19.

Also this time: Dr. Juli Berwald he fell in love with coral reefs when he was a marine biology student. texas resident wrote last september on Flower Garden Banks for Texas Monthly. Now she has a new book called Life in the rocks: building a future for coral reefs. We talked to her about efforts to protect reefs and how they, in turn, provide protection from storms but are threatened by climate change. We also discuss a parallel drawing by Berwald about the fate of coral reefs, and her own daughter’s struggle with mental illness, two often unseen battles with uncertain outcomes.

And an event at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts, with the Houston-based ensemble nameless soundhe fuses music with visual representations of himself.

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