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Two-thirds of California voters believe global warming is a threat and measures need to be taken to stop it, but the level of concern has dropped significantly over the past six years, according to a Field Poll released Monday. 
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The most accurate assessment to date of the impact of commercial fishing on sharks suggests around 100 million a year are being killed.
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Federal wildlife officials Friday ordered substantial cuts in water diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a rare fish.
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Texas-Brine, the company that owns
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Generally excavating stuff from the ground lowers the soil surface. Just an observation.
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News: Kelp, cobble will remain on San Clemente's beaches | city, kelp, beach, sand, council, clemente, san, heider, don, possible
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San Clemente City Council recently adopted new rules for caring for the natural features on their beaches.
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A disagreement over a well-known slice of the Southern California coast is threatening to drive a wedge between Marines and surfers, groups that had recently set aside differences and become political allies.
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http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/545 The 2011 Mississippi River flood was among the largest and most damaging to occur along this waterway in the past century....
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Jumpt to 1:55 if you want to skip the ad for USGS, jump to 6 minutes if you want to see some of the sediment cores themselves. The flood event dropped several cenitmeters of fresh sediment. We need more floods like this!!!
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The Netherlands has held back the sea for centuries; now it is letting it in, as the Dutch realize they are facing a losing battle.
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We need a much better model of coastal adaptation than most folks are currently envisioning.
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The Navy will restore nine acres of dune habitat along Silver Strand Highway.
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Time will tell if this is enough to reverse this decades-long trend in declinging abundance.
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In dozens of towns along the country's northeastern Pacific coast, from tiny Ryoishi in the north to Fukushima farther south, where some areas remain off-limits due to radiation fears, the tsunami zone remains a wasteland.
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The challenge with any major endeavor, but particulalry disaster recovery, is to maintain the momentum and show continued, steady progress. The devestation from the Tsunami two years ago was so complete and so widepread that the "simple" act of removing debris is on track to take perhaps a decade or more.
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The sand berms protect parking lots and other facilities from storm-wave damage.
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By all mena
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New report finds rockfish and other oceans species off the Central California coast growing in size and number in marine protected areas set up by state officials five years ago.
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Efforts to deal with plastic pollution have been gaining momentum over the last decade. This EPA Region 9 study published last fall quantified the cost incurred by 90 cities along the West Coast to clean up litter and prevent trash from entering the ocean or waterways leading to the ocean. Cities spend an annual average of $13 per resident to control litter and reduce marine debris or a total of $520,000 for the cities studied. It is not surprising, therefore, that prior to last Friday's deadline for introducing legislation in the California Legislature, four bills designed to reduce marine debris and plastic pollution were introduced
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About 610 acres in Plaquemines Parish that helps protect communities from floodwater and wind soon will receive some help in removing non-native invasive vegetation that exploded in the area after Hurricane Katrina.
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Our most recent $ for invasive control/wetland restoration.
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Tons of Californians arrested at White House climate change protest
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The XL issue remains a smoldering, contentious issue that folks see as something of a line in the sand (not that we haven't had these before).
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The spring 2011 flood on the Mississippi was among the largest floods ever, the river swelling over its banks and wreaking destruction in the surrounding areas.
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As you're all probably well aware, the shit-covered Carnival cruise ship finally arrived in Mobile, Alabama earlier tonight. CNN dropped all other news to cover the event as though it were some sort of national disaster, which it clearly isn't.
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We see more and more evidence of California setting the trend in (mainstream) approaches to dealing with climate change in a public policy context.