04-24-2022-1012 - California Braces for Another Cataclysmic Wildfire Season

California Braces for Another Cataclysmic Wildfire Season

Blazes burned more than three million acres last year—nearly the size of Connecticut

By Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News on March 31, 2022





https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-braces-for-another-cataclysmic-wildfire-season/





CALIFORNIA TODAY

What Winter’s Dry Spell Means for California’s Fire Season

This winter’s extreme rainfall and dryness might average out to near-normal levels of precipitation. But that’s no insurance policy against fire, scientists say.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/california-fires.html
6.2 magnitude quake shakes Northern California


By Cheri Mossburg, CNN



Updated 8:36 PM ET, Mon December 20, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/us/california-earthquake/index.html




Wildfires have erupted across the globe, scorching places that rarely burned before

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN
Photo editor Sarah Tilotta, CNN

Updated 6:16 AM ET, Thu July 22, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/world/wildfires-siberia-us-canada-climate-intl/index.html

04-24-2022-1007 - ‘Unusual’ deep-sea jellyfish discovered off California coast

‘Unusual’ deep-sea jellyfish discovered off California coast

The Atolla reynoldsi is one of three formally identified new specimens of Atolla jellyfish floating in the depths of Monterey Bay

A new species of deep-sea crown jelly, Atolla reynoldsi, discovered by MBARI researchers. Photograph: © 2014 MBARI 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/22/unusual-jellyfish-discovered-california-atolla-reynoldsi