Crab for Thanksgiving? Don’t Count on It. Commercial Season Delayed
If you were hoping for a locally caught Dungeness crab dinner this Thanksgiving, you may have to wait — or catch it yourself. Late Wednesday, hours before some boats in the commercial fleet were set to...
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Microfibers: How the Tiny Threads in Our Clothes Are Polluting the Bay
One of the major sources of microplastic pollution in the San Francisco Bay comes from something you might not expect: our laundry. Turns out, our clothes shed thousands of fibers every time they’re...
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Sea Urchins Pull Themselves Inside Out to be Reborn
Every summer, millions of people head to the coast to soak up the sun and play in the waves. But they aren’t alone. Just beyond the crashing surf, hundreds of millions of tiny sea urchin larvae are...
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Minion-Like ‘Larva Bots’ Roam the Seas, Uncovering Secrets
Grant Susner leans over the edge of a boat in Bodega Bay, stretches his arm toward the waves and releases “Bipinnaria” into the wild. Bipinnaria — bright yellow against the deep blue surface — begins...
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Vapor Plumes on Jupiter’s Moon, Europa, Show New Evidence of Water
The possibility of an ocean under the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, has tantalized scientists for a long time. Now astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are reporting further...
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Volunteer Brown Pelican Count Aims to Measure Recovery of Once-Endangered Birds
California’s brown pelicans are coming back — you can count on it. For the second year running, Audubon California is organizing a survey of the Pacific coast’s brown pelican population. The...
View ArticleOn Annual Coastal Cleanup Day, Trash Reveals Something About Californians
On Saturday, Sept. 16, thousands of Californians will head to the beach, not to jump waves or take in the sun, but to pick up trash. The annual Coastal Cleanup Day draws 60,000 volunteers who pull more...
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The Lowly Seagrass That Could Save Your Oysters From Climate Change
The impacts of climate change aren’t a distant threat for the Pacific shellfish industry. Acidifying seawater is already causing problems for oyster farms along the West Coast and it’s only expected to...
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From Drugged Oysters to Birds Full of Plastic, Oceans Are Feeling the Burden...
Traces of life on land are increasingly showing up in oceans and in ocean life. Scientists are finding a growing presence of pharmaceuticals, small pieces of plastic and household chemicals in the...
View ArticleFeds Weigh Protections for Klamath River’s Spring-Run Chinook Salmon
Federal fisheries officials said Tuesday they will consider putting the Klamath River’s once-flourishing wild spring-run chinook salmon on the list of threatened or endangered species. The National...
View ArticleSalmon Will Have Places To Chill With Dam Removal
A $100 million project removing dams and helping fish route around others is returning a badly endangered salmon to spring-fed waters in northernmost California, giving cold-loving native fish a...
View ArticleSan Francisco Bay Shellfish Are Loaded With Toxins, Study Finds
A whopping 99 percent of mussels collected from the San Francisco Bay were contaminated with at least one algal toxin, while more than a third contained four different kinds of algal toxins, according...
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Chinook Salmon ‘Overfished’? Not So Fast, Say Fishers
For fishery regulators, it is official: The Sacramento River’s fall-run Chinook salmon are “overfished.” This formal designation, made in a February report from the Pacific Fishery Management Council,...
View ArticleSweet Science: Putting Corn Syrup to Work on Earth’s Origins
How has the Earth evolved, and what’s in store for the future? It’s a sticky question that has graduate student Loes van Dam covered in corn syrup by the end of a day in the lab. She thought using a...
View ArticleStriking Video of Minke Whale Captured Underwater
Marine mammal expert Dr. Regina Eisert thought minke whales were a little boring until she captured some striking footage of one swimming underwater near Antarctica. Now she thinks they’re beautiful....
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Desalinated Water Doesn’t Have to Come From the Ocean
The California Department of Water Resources has awarded $34 million in grants to eight desalination projects throughout the state. The money is part of a round of awards for desalination projects, as...
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The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought
Between California and Hawaii, there’s a teeming patch of garbage that’s stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. We already knew it was huge. There’s a reason it’s called the “Great...
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¿Qué puede hacer el Área de la Bahía ante el aumento del nivel del mar? El...
Esta serie es parte de la iniciativa nacional de periodismo ‘Connected Coastlines‘ del Centro Pulitzer. Read in English La primera vez que las calles se inundaron, Appollonia Grey ‘Uhilamoelangi, mejor...
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En sus propias palabras: Los residentes de la ciudad del Este de Palo Alto...
Esta serie es parte de la iniciativa nacional de periodismo ‘Connected Coastlines‘ del Centro Pulitzer. Read in English El creciente nivel del mar a causa del cambio climático no afectará a todos por...
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After Their Son Was Swept Into The Ocean, This Fremont Family Turned Their...
Find tips for staying safe at the beach this winter at the bottom of this post. Last January, Sharmistha Chakraborty and Tarun Pruthi lost their 12-year-old son, Arunay Pruthi, after he was swept off...
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