By Charmaine Coimbra I celebrated my mid-December birthday with a hike along a Central California bluff. The day was warm and eucalyptus blended with salt air invigorated my soul. When I finally reached trail’s end on a bluff that overlooks the… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: The gray whale is currently in migration from their summer feeding grounds in the Artic Ocean to their birthing and breeding grounds in Mexico. To follow a gray whale’s migration route and for more about the dangers these… Read More ›
By Charmaine Coimbra There’s a worldwide movement to ban the one use plastic bag. It’s up for vote in my neck of the woods. I’ve read some wild letters to the editor about why the plastic bag is good for… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: December 29, 2011: Scroll to bottom for story update From the San Luis Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/09/03/1742473/mama-whale-klamath-river.html By Julia Hickey | jhickey@thetribunenews.com Julia Hickey The Tribune Morro Bay resident Ashala Tylor’s intimate photographs of “Mama” — the gray whale that… Read More ›
Melting Arctic Sea Ice Drives Walruses Onto Land Date: 18-Aug-11 Country: USA Author: Deborah Zabarenko Fast-melting Arctic sea ice appears to be pushing walruses to haul themselves out onto land, and many are moving around the area where oil leases… Read More ›
From Science News In June, scientists predicted that the Gulf of Mexico’s annual dead zone — a subsea region where the water contains too little oxygen to support life — might develop into the biggest ever. In fact, that… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: The oceans seem so big that they appear immune to change. But the fact that the oceans comprise 71% of Planet Earth, perhaps it is time for educating ourselves about the oceans and how they regulate our weather,… Read More ›
From PBS News Hour A dead zone — already the size of the state of New Jersey — is growing in the Gulf of Mexico, fueled by nutrient runoff from the swollen Mississippi River. This year, with floodwaters from the… Read More ›
What’s getting to be a familiar story, the warming ocean waters continue “unraveling” sea life. In a recent “Science News” story, Adelie and chinstrap penguins are another species undergoing a forced weight-loss program—less available krill for meals in the West… Read More ›
It’s ironic that the northern elephant seal’s worst nightmare was the human mammal–not its natural predators the great white shark and orca. In the 1800s oil hunters slaughtered nearly the entire northern elephant seal population…
Neptune 911! 