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Rescuers have taken in an above-average number of emaciated young brown pelicans this spring — the third starvation event in four years for the iconic California seabird.
Read moreThis tiny California town is flooded, broke — and reimagining climate insurance →
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Isleton is piloting community-based insurance for California, which desperately needs alternatives for the home insurance market.
Read moreSan Francisco Bay’s only marine lab on verge of closing, threatening decades of coastal research →
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The only marine lab on the San Francisco Bay is on the brink of shuttering, after failing to secure the funds necessary to cover its operating and maintenance costs.
Read moreA unique San Francisco Bay marine lab faces closure. It has days to raise millions →
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Ecologist Katharyn Boyer must shutter the beloved marine research center she manages on the San Francisco Bay’s shores — unless she can raise millions of dollars by next week.
Read moreDaffodils signal resilience in Santa Cruz Mountains, almost 5 years after CZU fires →
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After the CZU Lightning Complex fires devastated this Santa Cruz Mountain community in 2020, residents planted thousands of the cheerful flowers to express their resilience and hope for recovery.
Read moreScientists uncover clues to an ancient ocean on Mars →
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After years of hunting for a lost ocean on Mars, a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley and others have finally dug up compelling evidence.
Read moreCalifornia rain to return with 1 of year’s strongest storms on the way →
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After some days of sunshine, the rains could return Tuesday night. The week’s first storm will likely drop showers across the Bay Area before a second, much stronger atmospheric river hits late Wednesday through Friday.
Read moreRethinking flood insurance: Monterey County considering new approach →
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The County of Monterey, which spent upward of $100 million to recover from flooding during the prior two winters, is among governments statewide looking closely at a new flood insurance option.
Read moreA unique floating lab in San Francisco Bay has been invaded — and researchers are learning from it →
Published by The Mercury News
The lab is helping biologists consider how ‘fouling’ organisms that boaters clean off their vessels could actually aid floating structures.
Read moreArctic hydrothermal vents may resemble those on Enceladus →
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By studying hydrogen-rich vent sites on Earth, scientists could learn more about the hidden ocean of Saturn’s icy moon—one of our solar system’s likeliest candidates for harboring life beyond Earth.
Read moreWatch thirsty rattlesnakes drink from the scales of other snakes →
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Rattlesnakes in arid landscapes often coil their bodies when it rains to gather and sip drops from their sticky scales. But they can also nab water from the skin of nearby snakes, according to a new study reported in Current Zoology.
Read moreClimate change swiftly remaking the region’s grasslands, study finds →
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Climate change is altering regional grasslands at remarkable speed as species that thrive in hotter, drier conditions dominate the ecosystem, scientists reported in a recent study.
Read moreControversial U.S. Supreme Court decision threatens the country’s inland wetlands with new development, study says →
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In its May 2023 decision Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court all but gutted the nation’s Clean Water Act of 1972, only maintaining protections for large waterways and opening inland wetlands for development.
Read moreClimate Security Fellowship: Building ties with climate change experts and the military →
Published by the Monterey Herald
As the marine environment changes before his eyes, DeVant’e Dawson — a coral postdoctoral researcher from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station — is preoccupied with how to reach partners outside the realm of science to prepare for the climate crisis.
Read moreFrom eucalyptus removal to prescribed burns, Monterey Bay area climate change projects launched →
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A suite of local climate change adaptation projects launched this month thanks to a recent infusion of $71.1 million in federal funds.
Read moreForum: Candidates weigh in on marine science and policy →
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About 80 people attended a recent marine science and policy forum at Cal State Monterey Bay featuring a group of candidates on the state ballot.
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