ABC News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Central California Bank, hit by loan losses, to leave California market California - Pacific Ocean - Business - Financial services - United States
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Two Japanese destroyers belonging to the Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF) collided in the Pacific Ocean during an anti-piracy exercise on Friday morning, local media reported, citing the MSDF. Nobody was hurt in the collision and the ships sustained little damage. The accident occurred at 8:45 a.m. Japan time, and led to the postponement of the anti-piracy exercise. The ships, the Onami...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Micronesia is slowly disappearing due to rising waters in the Pacific. Global warming - Pacific Ocean - Climate change - Environment - Opposing Views
Climate Observations (Free subscription) | yesterday
INTRODUCTION This is Part 3 of a multipart post. It addresses critical comments about my earlier posts that dealt with the multiyear aftereffects of major traditional El Nino events. Two specific major traditional El Nino events, those in 1986/87/88 and 1997/98, caused Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans to remain at elevated levels during...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
After 60 years at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, 2nd Lt. Jack S. Arnett will be memorialized Saturday in Orlando Until her last breath, nearly 50 years after her son's wounded bomber plunged into the Pacific Ocean, Dessie Arnett Amick clung to the faintest of hopes that her baby-faced airman would someday return from World War II.
Scientific American (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks to a new, wired undersea observatory, when it comes to exploring the deep blue sea, there will be no more of this tethered buoy business or taking ships out to upload data from brief time snapshots taken by instruments. The NEPTUNE network set to go online Tuesday will stream data from hundreds of undersea instruments and sensors direct from the Pacific Ocean floor to the Internet...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
The strong signature of an El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event showed up as the warmest November in 30 years -- and not just by a little bit. November 2009 was a full 0.1 C (0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than November 2005, the second warmest November in the 31-year satellite record.
Gadling (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... where--if you can see past the skyscrapers--you'll observe mammoth cargo ships lining up in the Pacific Ocean to enter the canal. Imagine a 13-year old mixed-race girl from a broken home who spends her childhood in a reform school later to discover that her abusive deadbeat father left her a massive trust fund. That's Panama: young and eager, a little messed up, filling out nicely...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mendocino is probably one of the best vacation destinations in the state of California. In fact, it can be in the country's top tourist spots also. The place is perched on scenic bluffs. These bluffs offer a great view of the Pacific Ocean and Mendocino Bay, both providing a refreshing sea breeze.
LOST Theories (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Assuming the atomic bomb successfully detonated, causing the losties to fly without incident from Sydney to LAX, couldn't the explosion itself have started a completely different history of the world from the 70's to the present (2004). That is, could an atomic bomb going off in the Pacific Ocean in the 1970s have created, say, a confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. Could...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Carlsbad California is a beautiful, fashionable beach-side town just north of San Diego. It's one of several quaint beach towns lined along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean. Carlsbad is known for it's wide sandy beaches and picturesque downtown - the quintessential SoCal California beach town.
Sancta Sanctis (Free subscription) | yesterday
+IHS+ Of Floods and More Family Feuds You should also know for historical reasons that there are many other cultures that have stories about a flood in their history. As many as 270 flood stories are known in the world. There are stories in India, China, the islands of the Pacific Ocean, and even in Native American folklore about people who survived a "great flood." The names...
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Lake Tahoe, CA - A powerful snowstorm swept in off the Pacific Ocean on Monday, leaving as much as three feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains and dropping snow levels near Los Angeles to as low as 1,500 feet before marching across southern and central Utah into the southern Rocky Mountains.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
... meteorologists. Unlike storms originating in the Gulf of Alaska that warm somewhat over the Pacific Ocean, the weather system that has Northern California in its grips traveled over the colder land mass. "The ocean is always warmer than the land mass in the wintertime," said Angus Barkhuff. The high today is expected to be about 46 degrees in Sacramento. Wednesday...
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
On the North Shore of Oahu there is a wave known as Pipeline. Large Pacific Ocean swells travel thousands of miles only to crash upon the jagged reef. The collision results in a near perfect wave revered by surfers for its “tube” or “greenroom”. [More...]
