In September 2014, William Precht received an alarming phone call. “I’m seeing something funky out on the reef,” a colleague reported. “It looks like disease.”
As Disease Ravages Coral Reefs, Scientists Scramble for Solutions
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To Prevent Fires, One California Town Says 'Goat Fund Me'
Nestled in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains is the quaint Gold Rush town of Nevada City.
Research Finds Recreationists Support Offshore Wind Energy Development
From boat enthusiasts to anglers, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found surprisingly widespread support for offshore wind energy development (OWD) among outdoor recreationists.
Excessive Social Media Use is Comparable to Drug Addiction
Bad decision-making is a trait oftentimes associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use social media?
Western U.S. Monarch Butterfly Population Declined Sharply in 2018
California’s population of monarch butterflies declined 86 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, a nonprofit group that conducts an annual survey of the species in the western United States. Overall, the state’s monarch population has declined 97 percent since the 1980s.
Tornado project takes national spin
A Western-led project to discover and decode tornadoes in remote Northern Ontario has spun into a nationwide mission to identify every Canadian tornado in 2019
