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High heat + big talk: Mexico president hopefuls flunk climate test

Mon, 24 June 2024, 1:17 pm
MEXICO CITY - It has never been hotter in Mexico - and the women and men who want to run the country have never tried harder to come up with solutions to the climate crisis. Nor ever fallen quite so short, according to analysis of…
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Wild Coast Wisdom: Strategies for Rewilding Iconic Coastal Ecosystems with Serge Dedina

Tue, 30 April 2024, 1:14 pm
WILDCOAST co-founder and executive director Serge Dedina joins Jeff Johnson on the Nature Junkie podcast to discuss our mission, key programs (like protecting sea turtle nesting beaches in Mexico, mangroves, gray whale habitat, and coral reefs), barriers to conservation, the importance of blue mind, opportunities…
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Opinion: When celebrating Earth Day, don’t forget our coast and the ocean

Tue, 30 April 2024, 1:13 pm
You don’t have to travel far to experience one of the most important wildlife migratory corridors on the planet. Just offshore from San Diego is a Blue Corridor or superhighway for fin, blue, gray and humpback whales. These leviathans are joined by white and mako…
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Opinion: Blue carbon ecosystems have the power to protect fragile coastlines, but time is running out

Tue, 30 April 2024, 1:12 pm
The salt marshes and salt ponds of southern San Diego Bay are 450 miles north of the mangrove fringed Laguna San Ignacio, a gray whale birthing lagoon on the Pacific Coast of the Baja California Peninsula. While geographically separated, these coastal embayments are connected by…
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Atmospheric river trashes San Diego beaches with debris from Tijuana

Tue, 30 April 2024, 1:11 pm
SAN DIEGO — Bottles, plastic wrappers, cigarette butts, used batteries.  You name it, it’s cluttering our coastline after all the rain. It flows from Tijuana and from storm drains all over San Diego directly into our ocean and onto our beaches. Lillie Mulligan is with Wild Coast, working to…
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Community works to protect San Diego coastal ecosystem

Fri, 19 January 2024, 10:19 am
For the people working to clean up Agua Hedionda Lagoon, the area is more than just a beautiful body of water. Carlos Callado said it's a protection against climate change. He's part of the conservation group Wildcoast, which organized the work day as part of…
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Toxic Tide: The sewage crisis at the border

Fri, 19 January 2024, 10:18 am
Imperial Beach in San Diego County is one of the most polluted beaches in the United States. The water is polluted. The air is polluted. And local leaders think no one with the power to help cares. “Our local beach here behind me has been…
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Opinion: Marine Protected Areas allow underwater ecosystems to thrive by leaving them alone

Fri, 19 January 2024, 10:15 am
Growing up in sun-kissed San Diego, I spent most of my weekends in La Jolla, desperate to be in the water. Whether I was surfing around Scripps Pier or kayaking the Cove, I couldn’t but help notice the abundance of marine life around me. .…
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Opinion: This untouched piece of coast in Baja California embodies the importance of conservation

Fri, 19 January 2024, 10:13 am
There may be no other place that embodies the wild Pacific coastal landscapes of the Baja California peninsula than Valle de los Cirios, a globally unique and fragile coastal and desert protected area located about 270 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. With some luck…
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Volunteers rally to protect San Diego coastal ecosystem

Fri, 19 January 2024, 10:09 am
A small group of volunteers were perched on the sandy bluff above Carlsbad’s Agua Hedionda lagoon on Thursday, hoping to restore a slope filled with native plants. Read more here.
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