One morning in January 1969, an oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara exploded. More than 3 million gallons of oil spread across California’s coastline, darkening the coast and killing marine life. It was the largest oil spill the United States had ever experienced. The disaster has already galvanized the environmental movement around pesticides … Read more
Scott Dam in Lake County and Cape Horn Dam in Mendocino County, shown here in 2025, are owned by PG&E and are scheduled to fail. But the Trump administration is trying to block that, saying the Riverside County Water District could buy them. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/SF Chronicle The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture said Southern California’s … Read more
Merritt Island, Florida – On a windy morning in Kerry Park East, a small group of volunteers fanned out along the coastline with clipboards and buckets, staring into the waves as they searched for one of nature’s oldest survivors. they are part of Florida Horseshoe Crab Watcha statewide citizen science initiative that turns ordinary Florida … Read more
Wildlife conservationists captured the first mountain lion in Marin as part of an expanded research project to learn more about how the big cats live in the North Bay. The 8-year-old, 140-pound male, named P-60, was captured in the Lagunitas area last month. Living with Lions program researchers targeted the beast after a property owner … Read more
Open this photo in gallery: Premier Mark Carney will sign a memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Daniel Smith in Calgary in November 2025.Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press The latest business sentiment survey from ATB Cormark Capital Markets suggests that confidence in new oil pipelines being selected for expedited federal review within the next year is waning. … Read more
NASA’s latest cubesat missionCANVAS began studying how radio waves generated by lightning and man-made transmitters travel from the Earth’s surface to the vast expanse of space. The mission, which launched on April 7, aims to provide critical insights into the space environment that could change the way both space infrastructure and systems on Earth are … Read more
Forcing SST Traditional low-resolution sea surface temperature datasets cannot resolve local warming disparities in coastal areas, whereas kilometer-scale resolution data depict land-sea temperature gradients 4). Comparing with observations, we find that SST from BCC-CSM2-MR shows strong consistency with both reanalysis datasets and satellite assimilation data in capturing monthly variations in SST among several CMIP6 GCMs … Read more