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Idle dredging equipment from the Cemex sand-processing operation in Marina.

Most California cities refuse to retreat from rising seas. One town wants to show how it’s done

March 4, 2020 at 11:49 a.m.

MARINA, Calif. — Ten miles north of Monterey and a world away from Santa Cruz, Bruce Delgado gazed up a towering sand dune. Careful not to step on the beach...

Humpback whales eat both krill and anchovies, depending on what's available. Krill tend to thrive in deeper and colder waters -- and well up with the typical currents along the California coast.

What’s tangling up the humpback whales? A food chain snarled by climate change

January 27, 2020 at 12:57 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Karin Forney still remembers when an unusual number of humpback whales started showing up in Monterey Bay a few winters ago. She could see them out her...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Fans celebrate lives of Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds at joint memorial service

December 17, 2018 at 5:11 p.m.

Under clear blue skies, hundreds of fans made the pilgrimage Saturday to Forest Lawn Memorial Park-Hollywood Hills' Hall of Liberty to pay tribute to actress Carrie Fisher and her mother,...

Ian McIlvoy, a Westmont College student whosupports Donald Trump, affixes a Trump campaign sticker to his lapel.

On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump

May 14, 2019 at 6:06 a.m.

Hunkered behind a MacBook decorated with stickers that read "This laptop was brought to you by capitalism" and "TRUMP 2016," Jake Lopez bounces T-shirt slogans off his friend Ian McIlvoy....

Marilyn Lane tries to shut a door as a wave rushes into her Solimar Beach home during a January 1998 storm.

El Niño temperatures in Pacific Ocean break 25-year record: ‘It’s coming’

June 20, 2019 at 10:37 p.m.

Temperatures in a key location of the Pacific Ocean are now far hotter than they ever were in the record 1997 El Niño. Some scientists say the readings show that...

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