An angler holds the remains of a good-sized grouper. Trey Spearman, CC BY-ND Hemingway battled shark attacks while trying to catch bluefin tuna off Bimini in the Bahamas. “Not one of these magnificent fish was ever taken by a shark near Bimini without being marked,” said Kip Farrington, a longtime Field & Stream magazine editor… Read More »
Tropical Storm Debby was moving so slowly that the Olympians could overtake it as it passes through the Southeast in early August 2024. That gave its rain time to flood cities and farms across large parts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. More than a foot of rain fell in some areas early on August… Read More »
By Jose Cortes and Paola Chiomante TULUM/CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s top tourist destinations were put on red alert after Hurricane Beryl reached Category 3 strength on Thursday evening and left deadly destruction across several Caribbean islands. Beryl was packing winds of up to 115 mph as it moved toward the east coast of the… Read More »
After devastating Jamaica and the Windward Islands, Hurricane Beryl is heading toward Mexico and possibly the U.S. Its devastating winds and storm surge have destroyed homes, knocked out power and killed at least eight people. The storm, which was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane on Thursday morning, remains a “major hurricane” with maximum winds… Read More »
After a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station, a three-person female crew returned to Earth early Tuesday, hurtling like a blazing meteor through America’s heartland as their Crew Dragon capsule touched down in the Gulf of Mexico. vault. Suspended under four large parachutes, Crew Dragon “Endurance” touched down at a jogging pace south of… Read More »
A handful of super-strong tropical storms in the past decade and the possibility of more have led several experts to propose a new category of major hurricanes: Category 6. Research shows that the strongest tropical storms are becoming more intense due to climate change. So the traditional five-category Saffir-Simpson scale, developed more than 50 years… Read More »
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and feed a massive dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem, concentrated in agricultural regions that flow into the Mississippi River.… Read More »
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and feed a massive dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem, concentrated in agricultural regions that flow into the Mississippi River.… Read More »
EL BOSQUE, Mexico (AP) — People moved to El Bosque on the Gulf of Mexico in the 1980s to fish and build a community. Then climate change brought the sea across the town. Flooding caused by some of the world’s fastest sea level rises and increasingly severe winter storms has nearly destroyed El Bosque, leaving… Read More »
EL BOSQUE, Mexico (AP) — People moved to El Bosque in the 1980s to fish. Fishermen set out for the Gulf of Mexico in groups of three and four and returned with buckets of tarpon and long, striped snook. There was enough to feed them and establish a community; three schools, a small church and… Read More »