Jul 27 Shift in shipping traffic may help save world’s largest animal By Vic Pasquantonio Scientists hope to boost the population of endangered blue whales by changing shipping routes off the coast of California. Continue reading
Jul 21 Earth sees hottest June on record since 1880, NOAA says By Anna Christiansen The world’s heat record was broken for a second consecutive month. With the exception of Antarctica, new temperature highs were recorded on every continent. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch California’s ‘water cop’ urges residents to take drought seriously with mandatory restrictions By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 15 California considers emergency water rules, steep fines to cope with drought By Kyla Calvert Mason The proposed rules would prohibit individuals from allowing runoff during outdoor watering, washing cars with open hoses, spraying down sidewalks or other hard surfaces, and using potable water in decorative fountains. There would be a $500 fine for breaking those… Continue reading
Jul 05 Great white shark attacks swimmer off California coast By Elisabeth Ponsot Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Rick Flores told the Associated Press that the victim was bitten on the upper right side of his body and had suffered puncture wounds. Continue reading
Jul 03 What would you ask the head of the EPA? By Hari Sreenivasan If you had one question for Ms. mccarthy what would it be? Do you think the EPA is doing what's necessary? Not doing enough? Gone too far?… Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch 9:28 Former treasury secretary urges business world to heed climate change risks By PBS News Hour If you are an American investor, the risks of climate change should matter to you. That's the message from the Risky Business Project, led by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, billionaire financier Tom Steyer and former Treasury Secretary Henry… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch Can Obama’s Pacific Ocean sanctuary plan balance environmental and economic interests? By PBS News Hour President Obama launched a plan to create the world's largest marine preserve by adding to the existing national monument in the Central Pacific. Drilling, fishing and other activities would be off limits. Joshua Reichert of the Pew Charitable Trusts and… Continue watching
Jun 17 Obama seeks to protect Pacific Ocean by creating world’s largest marine preserve By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is looking to create the largest marine preserve in the world by protecting a massive stretch of the Pacific Ocean from drilling, fishing and other actions that could threaten wildlife, the White House said. Continue reading
Jun 14 World’s largest ocean may lie below the ocean floor By Hari Sreenivasan, Vic Pasquantonio A study in Science reveals that a massive reservoir of water -- in its molecular form -- may lie hundreds of miles below the earth’s surface and may hold more water than the earth’s oceans. Continue reading