Dave Adalian

United States, Visalia

Independent journalist in Visalia, CA. Once chased @RepDevinNunes out of a Panera. Six-time @CNPAservices California Journalism Awards winner.

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Articles

Glacier collapse catastrophe as massive surge buries village and river

1 week ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Earth The village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was almost entirely destroyed on Wednesday, May 28, by ice, mud and rock that fell from a glacier in the surrounding mountains. The village was home to 300 residents. Approximately 90% of the village’s buildings were crushed during the glacier collapse. The flow of the adjacent Lorza River was also blocked.
Kaweah Health nurses facing potential loss of licenses over ER death

3 weeks ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

Two former Kaweah Health nurses are facing possible loss of their licenses to practice in the wake of the negligent death of a patient under their care at the Kaweah Health Medical Center emergency department. Gross Negligence, Incompetence & Unprofessional Conduct AllegedShelby Corwin and Jessica Pierce stand accused of gross negligence, incompetence and unprofessional conduct by the Office of the State Attorney General.
Kaweah Health settles class action suit by employees

1 month ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

The Kaweah Delta Health Care District has agreed to settle a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 6,000 current and former employees who claim the district underpaid them for years. The settlement will cost the district more than $500,000. Employees from 2019 to 2024 in PayoutIncluded in the class are all of the district’s employees who worked from October 19, 2019 to June 27, 2021, and any employee who was on-call from October 19, 2019 to November 19, 2024.
How a sunlike star yanked down a teetering planet

1 month ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Space Your support = more science, more stars, more wonder. Donate to EarthSky and be part of something bigger. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might mark the first time astronomers have witnessed a parent star consuming one of its own planets. And it appears the doomed world was pulled down to its demise. It’s a long-held belief among astronomers that aging sunlike stars will swell into red giants and consume their innermost planets.
Bonobo chatter shares a unique feature with human speech

1 month ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Earth Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter. Join our 2025 Donation Campaign today. The bonobo (Pan paniscus), humanity’s closest cousin, appears to communicate in a way scientists believed was exclusive to humans. Researchers from the University of Zürich and Harvard University said on April 3, 2025, that bonobos combine their vocalizations – peeps, grunts, whistles and more – to create more complicated meanings.
Family of man who died untreated in ER sues Kaweah Health

2 months ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

After a finding by state authorities that a series of failures and neglect led to the untimely death of a patient in the Kaweah Health Medical Center emergency department, the family of the dead man is seeking damages from the Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Tulare County Superior Court. In legal filings, the district has denied the families’ claims. A jury trial in the matter is set for 8:30 a.m. on Friday, February 6, 2026. Ten days have been set aside for the trial before Judge David C.
Tulare Local Health Care District settles final lawsuit from mismanagement era

2 months ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

The Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) has settled its lawsuit against a former member of its board of directors, Dr. Parmod Kumar. Kumar, who was removed from office in a 2017 recall election, was alleged to have encouraged the use of district funds to pay for a private lawsuit against another physician. Kumar has agreed to pay the TLHCD $500,000 over the next four years.
Prototaxites: Oldest giant organisms a lost kingdom of life?

2 months ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Earth Researchers might have identified a kingdom of life previously unknown to science! Whatch this video for an explainer. The first giant lifeform to grow on Earth’s ancient surface could represent an entirely lost kingdom of life. That’s the claim of a new study – not yet peer-reviewed – published March 17, 2025, as a pre-print on bioRxiv. It challenges the established classification of Prototaxites, towering tree-like lifeforms that dominated the landscape 400 million years ago.
New tree is a towering East African giant of the rainforest

2 months ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Earth A team of African and European botanists said on March 20, 2025, that they’ve identified a new species of tree in the East African rainforests of Tanzania. And it is both massive and ancient. The new tree – Tessmannia princeps – is a towering giant that lifts its limbs more than 130 feet (40 meters) above the surrounding jungle canopy. Its enormous trunk spreads almost 20 feet (9 m) in diameter.
Kaweah Health whistleblower says he was fired for revealing details of patient’s death to surviving family

2 months ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

A former unit secretary at the Kaweah Health Medical Center emergency department (ED) said he was fired from his job after revealing to surviving family members how a 60-year-old patient died as result of willful inaction by the medical staff. A state investigation of the fatal October 2023 incident found multiple violations by Kaweah Health. And the resulting report – presented here in its entirety – confirms the former employee’s version of the tragic events.