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Earth Science

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Dolphin Trapped at Bolsa Chica and Whale Entangled in Fishing Line Believed Out to Sea

    Two marine mammals whose plights led to much nail biting by human mammals on shore have apparently returned to the open sea, hopefully unscathed.The bottlenose dolphin that had been swimming in circles in shallow water within the Bolsa Chica wetlands is believed to have left some time this weekend. ... More >>

  • Film

    March 29, 2012

    Democracy Then, As Seen in 'The Island President'

    A portrait of recently ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    How to Prepare Your Garden for the Effects of Global Warming

    Flickr user jaynefury​Notice how your plants are blooming later and later every year--or not blooming at all? Yep: it's global warming, which everyone who starts their morning with the Drudge Report insists doesn't exist--and, if it does exist, why bother stopping it since Mother Earth's march is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Bad Religion's Greg Graffin to Teach at Cornell; Has Bird Fossil Named After Him

    Chad Sengstock/OC WeeklyGreg Graffin at not a lecture​Remember that one cool professor you had in college, who let you skip classes as long as you turned in awesome papers and never minded if you came to lectures hung over? Well, now that Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin is teaching Evolution ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    UCI Law Student-Run Conference Looks at Climate Justice

    ​UC Irvine law students are holding a first-ever, all-day conference today on climate justice. "A3 [Assemble. Advocate.Act]: A Conference on Climate Justice" examines "the social injustices faced by vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change," according to organ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Best of the West Chowderfest -- March 12

    ​ It's a good thing we're on the West coast, or else we might have to tell you about the Beast of the East Chowderfeast. But instead, Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific hosts this chowder competition at their 7th Annual Sustainable Seafood Day. Besides, as Californians, we're freed of New Engla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Ry Cooder, You've Never Been Cooler

    The artwork for the single features the piece Nuthin' to See Here, Keep on Movin'! by Vincent Valdez. ​Famous slide guitar player and singer-songwriter Ry Cooder isn't just boycotting Arizona--he wrote a song, called "Quicksand," as a response to Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070. Cooder de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    Icelandic Volcano Claims More (Coachella) Victims

    ​The official Coachella Twitter has just confirmed that Talvin Singh, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Gary Numan all will not be able to make the festival, due to travel restrictions brought about by the volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (no, seriously, that's the name of the volcano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Icelandic Volcano Kills Several Coachella Performances

    Andrew YoussefCoachella dwellers won't be seeing the Cribs today after all​​It looks like Thursday's Icelandic volcano eruption is causing a few of Coachella's European acts to cancel their performances. Bummer.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Utility Giant, Texas Oil Companies Fight Back With California Voter Initiatives

    ​An anti-tax group and a coalition of businesses quietly led by Texas oil companies have launched a signature drive for a November ballot initiative that would suspend California's pioneering law to combat global warming.Meanwhile, a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)-bankrolled measure that cons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Non-Threatening, Non-Impressive Robot to Visit Long Beach

    HEY KIDS! It's TERRI! That's right! The mascot robot for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is coming to Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific on Nov. 14. As we all know, that's "Our Planet Day" at the Aquarium.

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Meat Free Monday Goes Mainstream

    Of course, by 'mainstream' I mean that celebrities are now endorsing the campaign. Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney today launched a new website, Meat Free Monday, which encourages everyone to, yes, you guessed it, give up meat on Mondays. Other famous names weighing in include Kevin Spacey, Sheryl C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2009

    Moderate Earthquake Strikes LA, OC

    Crashing PlatesAt 8:39 p.m., an estimated 5.0 magnitude earthquake centered in the Hawthorne/Inglewood area rocked Los Angeles and Orange County, according to me, my neighbors and Caltech. In Santa Ana, the quake felt like it lasted about 15 seconds and seemed determined to topple a bookcase. LA n ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of the World

    Bowers Museum

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante: We're Doomed

    As chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA), Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante (pictured) is all over the news today, reacting bitterly to the Commerce Secretary Carl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    As State OK's Tough Global Warming Rules Should Diesel Be Next?

    As expected, the state this afternoon put teeth in its landmark regulations enacted in 2006 to combat global warming, adopting the nation's most comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such emissions must be cut 30 percent by 2020. But that is not enough for the editorial board ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Jonathan Gold, His Brother and Whale Meat

    Here's an interesting story by the LA Times about our sister paper's venerated and Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic, his meal of whale on a trip to South Korea, and what his brother Mark, a marine scientist and president of Heal the Bay thinks about it.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Marine Land

    Dorothy Green: remembered Academics, government officials, business people and clean-water advocates have been meeting since Tuesday at the seventh annual Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference at the Westin Long Beach, and unless they all got swallowed up by the creatures they gawked at during free ... More >>

  • News

    September 25, 2008

    Say You Will Build It, and They Will Come . . . If the 'It' Is a Toll Road Over Trestles Parkland

    Dorothy Green: remembered Academics, government officials, business people and clean-water advocates have been meeting since Tuesday at the seventh annual Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference at the Westin Long Beach, and unless they all got swallowed up by the creatures they gawked at during free ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    No. 1 on the Palin/Hewitt/Colbert Threat Down: (Polar) Bears!

    Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite sce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    Rappers or Republicans?

    In May, we posited that southern hip hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you're still not conv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    To Do Tonight 4/30

    World-Class Beer Tasting Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Enjoy the frites (we prefer them avec mayonnaise) and learn to love something other than Budweiser. Price: $14 Per Person KIMERA 19530 Jamboree Rd. Irvine, CA 92612 949-261-1222 It’s Too Darn Hot: Climate Change Panel, 7 p.m. Special gues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2007

    More Dead Birds

    Earlier this year, an impressive number of birds died near the mouth of the Santa Ana River. The cause of the deaths was never discovered. Today, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that seabirds all along the West Coast have been dying in exceptionally large numbers. This is the third year that s ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 1, 2007

    Letters

    'Give us all a breakthe Mexican wetback has become the majority.'

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2007

    Rohrabacher's Appalling Flatulence

    In case you missed it, you can find video of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') speculating about the effects of dinosaur flatulence here. And no, booze was not involved in the congressman's ramblings. Probing the effects of dinosaur farting is just something Rohrabacher sees as part of his officia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2006

    Hear The Earth Move

    Via the excellent BLDGBLOG: German artist Florian Dombois translates the subaudible sound of plate tectonics into something the human ear can hear, revealing unique geological characteristics of brewing earthquakes around the planet. Says Dombois: Usually seismic waves have a frequency spectrum b ... More >>

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Mostly, No

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, the propositions!

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    You-know-who's Green Earth

    Ninth-annual Caring for Creation Interfaith Conference

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2006

    NEWSFLASH! Ahnuld Terminates Hummers!

    It says right here that our Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger has sold his eight Hummers after converting to the cause to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You'll recall that then-action star Schwarzenegger was the one who convinced Hummer's manufacturer to sell the all-terrain military vehicles to ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2006

    Dancing around a great problem at The Great Park

    The El Toro Shuffle? The Great Park Gavotte? The Irvine Ranch Water District Toxic Waltz? We should come up a name for the little dance. It's a simple four step dance, and very familiar one. Scientists point out a looming environmental threat and call for government action. The Bush administration, ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 27, 2006

    Commie Girl

    Is It Hot in Here: A week among Republicans

  • Culture

    June 29, 2006

    Urinarytractosaurus?

    Dino Quest at the Discovery Science Center

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2006

    At the Movies

    After a corrupt Congressional electoral committee declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 presidential election, Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate and the actual winner of the election, left politics and, as Gore Vidal delicately put it, "retired to private life and to t ... More >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2006

    Fahrenheit 2050

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • Columns

    February 17, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • Features

    September 2, 2004

    Its Snot Unusual

    Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    The Poseidon Misadventure

    10 arguments against turning Surf Citys water into brine

  • Columns

    July 10, 2003

    More Backyard Trash Fires!

    And the Beatles vs. the beetles

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Oy, No! We Won't Go!

    And the Beatles vs. the beetles

  • Columns

    April 18, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    And the Beatles vs. the beetles

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Bad Company

    Six of Americas worst corporations are your neighbors!

  • Columns

    January 3, 2002

    Oh, Death!

    The year that sucked

  • Columns

    August 16, 2001

    Letters

    The year that sucked

  • Columns

    August 2, 2001

    A Nation of Consumers

    From global foolishness to microimperialism, the rich own you. And you like it that way

  • News

    July 26, 2001

    Alternative Groove

    Study shows sun, wind, geothermal power would solve 'crisis'

  • Features

    June 1, 2000

    Man on the Street on the Beach

    Study shows sun, wind, geothermal power would solve 'crisis'

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    The Bad Old Days

    If we knew then what we know now, theres a chance Brea Olinda High School would not exist

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Crystal Method

    Irvine Co.s Crystal Cove project raises eco-disaster fears

  • Features

    January 7, 1999

    April-June

    Irvine Co.s Crystal Cove project raises eco-disaster fears

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