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La semana pasada, en el campamento YMCA Camp Surf de Imperial Beach, un grupo de estudiantes de secundaria pasó la mañana patinando, escalando una torre de escalada y practicando tiro con arco y flecha. Luego, al mediodía, los campistas subieron a un autobús para un viaje de 40 minutos...
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At YMCA Camp Surf in Imperial Beach last week, a group of middle schoolers spent their morning skateboarding, scaling a climbing tower and practicing archery. Then at noon, campers boarded a bus for a 40-minute drive up the coast to Mission Beach, where they jumped in the waves for...
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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Los incendios forestales están aumentando en todo el mundo, y la amenaza va más allá de la destrucción causada por las llamas. La NASA advierte de que «el calentamiento climático de la Tierra está intensificando la actividad de los incendios forestales», y señala...
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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Wildfires are escalating globally, and the threat extends beyond destruction by flames. NASA warns that “Earth’s warming climate is amplifying wildland fire activity,” citing that “extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide.” The severity of these fires degrades water quality in the...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Daily life for many is changing as droughts intensify across the globe. In recent years they have become more frequent and severe due to climate change. The United Nations claims that over two billion people worldwide don’t have proper access to safe drinking...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies announced a proposal to revise the definition of “waters of the United States,” which defines the scope of federal jurisdiction over permits under the Clean Water Act. The EPA maintains that the proposal will protect water quality by striking a...
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Alastair Bland CalMatters Los incendios forestales del condado de Los Ángeles provocaron que el presidente electo Donald Trump despotricara por estos siniestros y que culpara al gobernador Gavin Newsom por privar de agua al sur de California. Trump repitió hoy una afirmación que ha hecho en el pasado, de que los esfuerzos...
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Alastair Bland CalMatters The Los Angeles County wildfires triggered a rant from President-elect Donald Trump, who blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for depriving Southern California of water. Trump today repeated a claim he has made in the past, that state efforts “to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt” have caused pain...
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After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped to a wastewater recycling facility next door and undergoes three different purification processes until it is clean enough...