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Eight Florida panhandle beaches issued health advisories for fecal bacteriaFlorida Health Department officials have issued advisories for eight beaches along the Florida panhandle after testing at higher than normal levels for fecal bacteria known by its scientific name as Enterococci. According to state officials, the...
More computer model hype: Adelie penguins face disaster by 2100A new study published yesterday says Antarctica’s Adelie penguins could face a disastrous population decline if global warming were to affect the continent. When? By 2099. There's two big problems: Antarctica’s ice cover is...
State of Emergency declared in Florida to combat toxic algae bloomFlorida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in Martin and St. Lucie counties, in response to the overgrowth of the algae blooms in South Florida. Water discharges from Lake Okeechobee are meant to reduce the algae load, but end...
UN climate chief vows Brexit won’t disrupt path to low-carbon economyThe United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said this week the Brexit vote was not a “rock in the road” on the world’s path to a low-carbon economy. She says that reports of Britain’s Exit (Brexit) disrupting...
Improvements at Aiken’s Carolina Bay, 2016Last week the City of Aiken finished work on an entrance-way to the Carolina Bay parking lot. The work was done well and no problems with standing water by the roadside will be in the Bay user’s future. During their daily walk, TobiJuan and...
Vandalism in national parks: Casey Nocket's sentencingBack in the fall of 2014, graffiti artist Casey Nocket caused an uproar among environmental activists when she documented--via social media--her own vandalism at numerous United States National Parks over a period of 26 days. This month, Nocket...
DNA evidence reveals ‘grolar’ bear was really a blonde grizzlyDNA evidence released this week showed a much-hyped blonde bear killed by a hunter in Canada’s Nunavut region was not a grizzly polar hybrid, or grolar bear, but rather a light-haired grizzly. News outlets and prestigious zoologists...
SJVAPCD asks EPA for new rules on heavy duty trucks and trainsUnder the premise that it can’t clean up the San Joaquin Valley’s air by controlling the things it is legally allowed to control, the San Joaquin Valley APCD (the District) today asked the United States Environmental Protection Agency ...
Leaked DNC docs show Hillary a climate change charlatanToday, leaked DNC documents show that while Hillary Clinton was giving speeches on the perilous dangers of climate change, she was flying across the world on a private jet with over a dozen of her closest advisors. Just add her name to the growing...
Trader Joe’s not as green as you think, must spend $2.5 M for CAA violationsTrader Joe’s, a popular national grocery chain, particularly for those consumers looking for unique and healthy products not found in typical grocery store chains, has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...
New study aims to learn how much ozone enters the Valley from the PacificThe California Air Resources Board (CARB) has just announced that a new research project is underway that is designed to determine how much of an impact, if any, ozone pollution entering California from the Pacific Ocean has on the San Joaquin...
Ah, those were the days, my friend….Earlier this month Dog and your Examiner were out taking care of our daily walk requirement, when we came upon a few city workers repairing some damage to the observation deck at Aiken’s Carolina Bay. Since this comment is probably...
Kerry finally admits terrorism is greater threat than global warmingJust days after the ISIS-inspired Orlando shooting, Secretary of State John Kerry was busy touring the Arctic Circle this week to see how climate change was affecting the region. But he did make one stunning admission: ISIS and terrorism poses a...
Baltimore weather includes flash flood watchThe National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch effective from 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 16, to 6 a.m. on Friday, June 17. A flash flood watch means conditions may develop that lead to a rapid rise in water level. There was also a...
Earth rapidly cooling off thanks to now-dead El NinoWith El Niño officially over, new data shared yesterday by NASA’s GISS shows the average surface temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.57°F) above average for May 2016, the first time in eight months that it was under one degree...
