Report: ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Has Grown to Twice the Size of Texas
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now consumes a whopping 600,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean.
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Delingpole: ‘Sinking’ Pacific Island Actually Getting Bigger Shock
Tuvalu – the Pacific island group often cited by climate alarmists as the nation most immediately at risk from rising sea levels caused by ‘global warming’ – is not sinking after all.
La Niña Brings Global Cooling, Except for California
A strengthening La Niña weather pattern has brought cooler temperatures to the world — except in California, where it is expected to be dry and warm for the next three months.
352-Event Earthquake Storm Hit Southern California Last Week
The 352-event earthquake storm that hit Southern California last week failed to cause appropriate concern due to the magnitude 7.1-magnitude monster that killed 295 in Mexico City.
North Korea Threatens ‘Strongest Hydrogen Bomb Test Over Pacific Ocean’
On Thursday, North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said his nation may soon conduct a hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean.
OC Police Chopper Alerts Surfers in Shark Infested Waters
Authorities took to the air via helicopter just off the coast of Orange County, California, on Thursday to warn surfers and paddleboarders to “exit the water calmly” because up to 25 great white sharks were seen plying the waters near the shore.
France, Australia Sign Off Major £30 Billion Stealth Submarine Deal
AFP — France and Australia will sign a multi-billion dollar deal — which Paris has billed as the “contract of the century” — for 12 state-of-the-art submarines, their defence ministers said on Monday. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and France’s Minister
Report: China to Send Nuclear-Armed Submarine into Pacific
After months of expanding its military capabilities in the South China Sea, the Chinese military is preparing to deploy nuclear-armed submarines to the Pacific Ocean, according to a report published Thursday in The Guardian.
Rare, Enormous Shark Seen off California Coast
Tourists aboard a whale-watching boat two miles off Capistrano Beach Thursday evening spotted two rare basking sharks — the second-largest fish of any kind in the ocean, and a species so rare there is a special hotline for sightings.
PHOTOS: Tropical Cyclone Winston Kills 10 in Fiji
Tropical Cyclone Winston killed at least ten people on Saturday when it tore through Fiji, located 1,800 miles from Australia.
El Niño Causes More Whales to Get Stuck in Nets
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.
Scientists Research Warm Water ‘Blob’ in Pacific
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.
Deadly Abalone Season Claims Another Life
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.
Drought: Santa Barbara to Re-Open Idle Desalination Plant
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.
