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Field research on the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill found that heart, vision and hearing damage caused to mahi mahi populations by even low amounts of oil can cut the chances of survival within a week to just half.
The city of Naples has reopened eight beach accesses but still cautions everyone to take precautions because of hazards under sand and in the water.Wearing beach shoes is highly recommended; the same goes for not swimming because of poor water quality.
Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over the past 30 years, and not just the big ones that you hear about. Our new research finds that weak tropical cyclones have gotten at least 15% more intense in ocean basins where they occur around the world.
One of the most popular and famous beaches in the United States, if not the world, is disappearing: Kaanapali Beach on the Hawaiian Island of Maui has been facing unprecedented beach erosion this year.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday moved to deal a major blow to the proposed Pebble mine, a large copper and gold prospect in a salmon-rich Southwest Alaska region that has been hotly contested for more than a decade.
It’s too bad that two environmental groups felt they had no choice but to go to court to force the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to consider how cumulative septic tank permits can harm water quality and environmental habitats along our coast. We already have abundant proof of the damage they can do.
The West Cliff Drive we know today — Santa Cruz’s “front porch,” a surfing mecca and the site for a procession of multimillion-dollar homes/objects of envy that represent the Sunset magazine ideal of the California Good Life — is a shockingly recent development. Coastline erosion has been an ongoing constant, consistent over decades and centuries — but now we humans are adding a new wrinkle: climate change.
LANSING — A startup company recently got design approval to build a ship that moves cargo with sails rather than fuel.And will cargo vessels on the Great Lakes be able to “veer” into alternative power?
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