North Pacific heat Blob, Kelvin wave, Storm surges and the biggest El Niño in 1000 years are going to make for a very active winter. Just offshore near the west coast of Mexico, there is a large mass ...

“Don’t Drink The Water!” reads an anonymous graffiti piece on the banks of the Mad River near Arcata, California during a winter high flow. Photo by Will Suiter A federal appeals court has ruled that ...

Preliminary new evidence shows glyphosate (aka Round-up) sits inside human organs where hormone-driven cancers usually develop. A new Hungarian study is the first to detect glyphosate directly inside ...

Larry Glass is Board Secretary of the NEC, and has been working with the NEC now for 50 years and is its longest serving board member. He has been an environmental activist since the first Earth Day.

The mission of the Northcoast Environmental Center is to promote understanding of the relations between people and the biosphere and to conserve, protect, and celebrate terrestrial, aquatic, and ...

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What coastal animal is affected most by plastic pollution? The Cooks Petrel, (TiTi in Maori) or commonly called the blue-footed petrel, is a tiny sea bird that migrates from its home in New Zealand, ...

Few animals suffer from a worse public image than vultures. When you think of them as portrayed by popular culture they are seen circling silently overhead in movies whenever danger approaches, appear ...

From May through November, RRAS will again lead monthly pelagic birding and whale-watching trips aboard the Steller Sunrise with Captain Lowell Wallace, chartered through the Humboldt Charter Company.

Who is the Virginia Opossum? An often misunderstood and maligned animal, due in part to their quiet nocturnal lifestyle, shy nature and when provoked or cornered, a delightful stream of hissing and ...

The Global Alliance to Advance Reuse. Zero Waste advocates hope that a new universal symbol for reuse will clear up the confusion with recycl ...

The California coast faces two serious wildlife problems: sea lions are dying from toxins in algal blooms, and seabirds are starving because there are fewer fish. These problems occur along the coast ...