
The warmer temperature of the eastern Pacific Ocean due to El Niño this year has created a life-threatening problem for whales traveling through the waters of California, luring them toward the coast, where they are entangled in fishing gear used by fishermen, crabbers and lobstermen.
by William Bigelow14 Dec 2015, 12:25 PM PST0

A “blob” of warm water in the Pacific Ocean has grown so large that it has become the largest ocean-temperature anomaly on record, ocean researchers claim.
by Daniel Nussbaum11 Jun 2015, 1:34 PM PST0

Two friends visiting northern California and fishing for abalone–a lucrative mollusc delicacy–were caught off guard while when a tide came in that forced the men up a sheer rock wall, one falling to his death 75 feet below. The incident is the fourth abalone-related death in the Mendocino region since the red abalone season began April 1.
by Michelle Moons24 Apr 2015, 4:15 AM PST0

The city of Santa Barbara is planning to re-open and modernize a mothballed desalination plant in an effort to combat California’s crippling drought, now entering its fourth year.
by Daniel Nussbaum4 Mar 2015, 12:39 PM PST0