The marine mammals are increasingly endangered as warmer waters push them into ship traffic and fishing gearA North Atlantic right whale has been spotted entangled in rope off New England, worsening an already devastating year for the vanishing animals, federal authorities said.Right whales number less than 360 and are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships. The entangled whale was seen on Wednesday about 50 miles (80km) south of Rhode Island’s Block Island, the...
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. >> A dead humpback whale that washed ashore on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island on Thursday was the first such death in the state this year, according to a marine mammal rescue group.
A marine mammal rescue group says a dead humpback whale that has washed ashore on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island was the first such death in the state this year
Earthquakes in New York are even rarer than snowfall in Los Angeles. The one that struck the East Coast last Friday was one of the largest in the region in a century. And yet on the grand scale of things — no longer the Richter scale, by the way, but the Moment Magnitude Scale — it was relatively minor, with a magnitude of 4.8. The MMS is exponential: A 5.0-magnitude quake is the equivalent of 475 tons of TNT exploding, while 6.0 equals 15,000 tons, and 7.0 is 475,000 tons. While this quake and...
A 15-year-old was arrested in his alleged connection to a shooting that left a 16-year-old dead in Bogalusa on Saturday, April 13.
Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to doI was impatient to get going. Plans had been made. I picked up my phone. “ChatGPT. Write me a memoir in the style of an excitable five-year-old on acid.”“We’ve only got 10 years to save the west,” I declared solemnly. Continue reading
The remains of a 12-year-old boy who had been missing for years were found in the attic of a residence in New York where a sex offender reportedly lived at a sober living group. Jaylen Griffin left his home on August 4, 2020, to go to the grocery store and was never seen alive again. On Sunday, three and a half years later, his grandmother heard the news she had been praying against for years. “I ask the Lord to give me strength. That’s how I process it,” Shirley Banks said to WGRZ-TV....
There have been 84 traffic fatalities so far this year
Three Palestinians are killed in West Bank clashes as Israelis search for a missing teenage boy.
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. >> A post-mortem examination of a whale that washed ashore on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island found that the animal had sustained numerous blunt force injuries including a fractured skull and vertebrae.
First of 2024; feds recently declared end to four-year mortality event after strandings dropped
SAN FRANCISCO >> Rescuers were searching Wednesday for a gray whale last spotted off Northern California’s coast with its tail entangled in a massive gill net.