A tanker truck loaded with thousands of gallons of fuel raced off Highway 99 in Atwater on Tuesday morning, overturned and burst into flames, spraying waves of fire at least … Click to Continue »
Read More »Plastic piling up in Arctic Ocean
Plastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean. It may not sound like much, but it’s a surprising … Click to Continue »
Read More »Vanishing ocean floor in the Florida Keys worsens risks from sea rise, study finds
If sea rise weren’t scary enough, scientists have now found another phenomenon threatening the Florida Keys and other coasts protected by reefs: a vanishing ocean floor. In a study published … Click to Continue »
Read More »Trash talk: Researchers come up with idea to better track ocean garbage
Imagine what’s known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and what comes to mind are floating bottles, flip flops and coolers blown about by wind and currents. In reality, the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Bleached-out ocean coral is a key distress signal
The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday, June 8: … Click to Continue »
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