Scientists analyzed coastal water quality in the months following a major Southern California wildfire. Their results were eye-opening.
California Fire Led to Spike in Bacteria, Cloudiness in Coastal Waters
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Ensuring Sustainable Recreational Fisheries in the Face of Social Change
The observation that ‘the fishing’s not what it used to be’ ranks up there with ‘the one that got away’ as a story that has crossed over from folk wisdom to folklore.
Can Cloud Seeding Help Quench the Thirst of the U.S. West?
Not since Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 A.D. has the American West been so dry.
Powerful Warm Winds Seen Blowing From a Neutron Star as it Rips Up Its Companion
Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first-time blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star whilst it consumes matter from a nearby star.
Corals Can Be “Trained” to Tolerate Heat Stress, Study Finds
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that corals that underwent a stressful temperature treatment in the laboratory for 90 days were more tolerant to increased water temperatures.
Rainfall Strongly Affects Infectious Vibrio Bacteria in Ala Wai Canal
In the Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki, Hawai‘i, the abundance of Vibrio vulnificus, an infectious bacterium, is strongly influenced by the amount of rainfall in the surrounding areas, according to a recently published study by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa and Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU).
