CA environment
Top Line: California sought to maintain its environmental leadership in 2024, with voters approving a $10 billion environmental bond and the state advancing its renewable energy goals — all while overcoming a large budget deficit. Voters weighed: Electorate approved proposal 4$10 billion bond to finance projects across the state which aim to protect drinking water, […]
Country diary: Our New Year’s resolution? Be like a dunnock | Birds
OIn this freezing morning we stood still for so long that our feet went numb. We try to be stealthy – a word often used to describe a bird that shakes up dead grass. Eventually, dunnock leaping into view, climbing the swaying stem, intent on reaching the hanging clusters of St. John’s wort. It’s so […]
‘Heck of a light show’: Spectacular bloom of bioluminescence returns to Tasmanian shores | Environment
Masses of glittering eyelashes have returned to the coast of Tasmania in a spectacular bloom of bioluminescence, which experts say is the biggest in years. Known as “sea sparkles” or “red tides,” the phenomenon was caused by masses of noctiluca scintillans, a pink-colored algae that experts say is beautiful to look at but is considered […]