Here’s How El Nino is Going to Wreck Your Life, Southern California
El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean, is causing the jet stream to direct storms into Southern California. El Niño storms are unpredictable. That can mean lightning strikes and high tides in the beach areas, flash floods in the high desert and mud flows in communities down stream of burn areas.
California’s Crab Fiasco Is Worse for Marine Life Than Humans
Something strange started happening to California sea lions. Over the course of just a few months, hundreds of them hauled themselves onto beaches near Monterey Bay and began convulsing uncontrollably.
Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
President Obama today, announced that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.
When Martinique Looses Its Most Beautiful Beaches, FWI
Staggering! This is how was deemed the rate of coastal erosion affecting some of the most popular southern beaches of Martinique island, specifically in Sainte Anne area, at Les Salines Beach.
Tar Balls Mar Portion of Cocoa Beach, Florida
About a half mile to mile stretch of Cocoa Beach have been covered with tar balls and tar patties.
Canada Now Has a Minister of Environment AND Climate Change
Leaders in Canada’s environmental community are expressing optimism about the appointment of lawyer Catherine McKenna as Minister of Environment and Climate Change at a swearing in ceremony in Ottawa Wednesday morning.
Why Keystone XL Is Dead
Once seeking a fast approval, TransCanada wants to pause the pipeline’s review. Why now?
Antarctic Coast Meltdown Could Trigger Ice-Sheet Collapse
Computer simulations suggest that unstable ice at continent’s edges eventually leads to metres of sea-level rise.
Sand Waves: Juggernauts of the Outer Banks
These so called sand waves, named such because they were like a tidal wave of sand barreling down upon the islands, have the destructive force of a glacier – unstoppable, consuming all. Anything and everything in the path of these dunes will succumb to its slow march across the landscape…