Several schools in the Bay Area received an unnerving email early Wednesday morning, prompting administrators to scramble and check the veracity of the bizarre threats. After checking the campuses, school officials decided the threats were not real and kept schools open.Officials were responding to a 6:05 a.m. email, sent to multiple school districts, including Antioch, Berkeley, Brentwood, Hayward, Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, Pittsburg, and San Ramon Valley public schools, which received...
Obstacles are mounting for California wildlife officials who are attempting to track down and rescue a young gray whale that was first discovered entangled in a gillnet off Laguna Beach in late March and was most recently sighted off the coast of Thornton State Beach in Daly City with a dense clump of the mesh still wrapped around its flukes. Now, experts fear for the whale's ability to survive, especially as its species experiences significant population declines and recently suffered from an...
Underwater mountains are biodiversity hotspots and researchers exploring the Salas y Gómez ridge off Chile have found 50 species probably new to science. How much more has yet to be discovered?Photographs by ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean InstituteSquat lobsters, bright red sea toads and deep-sea dragon fish were among more than 160 species never previously seen in the region that were spotted on a recent expedition exploring an underwater mountain range off the coast of South America. Researchers...
Spring break ended in chaos at the annual Orange Crush gathering in Savannah as shocking videos showed topless brawls and piles of trash washed into the ocean. The Orange Crush is a college spring break party on Tybee Island in the popular resort town of Georgia. A video showed piles of rubbish being washed into the sea along the coast. Another video captured the shocking moment when a fight broke out on the beach promenade, with several women violently punching and scratching each other - and...
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Planetary Technologies and South West Water want to carry out a carbon sequestration trial by dropping tonnes of magnesium hydroxide in St Ives Bay
Authorities say more human remains, including a torso, that are believed to belong to a missing woman have washed up on a beach along Lake Michigan
A family of four was killed in a solo-car crash in in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday night, officials said. The driver may have hit a tree, the Pleasanton Police Department said in a news release. The mother, father and two children under age 15 were killed in the crash that occurred at about 9 p.m. on Foothill Road near Stoneridge Drive in the East Bay suburb, the police said. The cause of the crash remained under investigation on Thursday night, but police said it appears the driver...
The annual dog surfing championship in Pacifica is in danger of being euthanized. Every year, people flock to the beaches of the San Mateo County city to watch canines catch waves for charity. But eight years after founding the event, its organizers worry that the competition might not happen, as costs for permits, fees and other requirements have increased more than 100% in the last three years. The group is asking for donations from the public to keep the event afloat. A GoFundMe page set up...
A man's body washed ashore a beach in Ventura County on Wednesday afternoon, and sheriff's investigators are looking into the case of the unidentified man. The Ventura County Fire Department and Naval Base Ventura County Fire Department received a call about the body that came ashore on Sandy Dune Beach along the Pacific Coast Highway, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department announced in a news release. The man is described as being in his mid-30s, authorities said. Medical personnel who arrived...
On Monday, the international community will celebrate the 54th anniversary of Earth Day with events across the globe. The first Earth Day took place April 22, 1970. A U.S. Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson prompted a massive demonstration.. when he called for students to and communities to fight for the environment and oppose environmental degradation using the same energy and fervor that was shown during the Vietnam War demonstrations. An estimated 30 million people showed up and...
Authorities used heavy equipment to free protesters who chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement.