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East Beach at Mission Creek Lands on Heal the Bay’s ‘Beach Bummers’ List for Bacterial Pollution
Annual report card is one way to check on water quality before heading to Santa Barbara County and other California beaches this summer
All Santa Barbara County beaches are safe and open, according to the county, which conducts regular water quality monitoring. In a report examining test results from 2020-21, Heal the Bay gave East Beach at Mission Creek a D grade for bacterial pollution that flowed from the city to the ocean through the creek. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo) By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
10 Bizarre Objects Found On Beaches
Over the years, an assortment of bizarre items has been found on the world’s beaches. Some have been living creatures; others, dead marine animals; still others, inanimate objects. A strange sea foam has washed ashore, carrying a variety of everyday items with it that beachgoers don’t see on the beach every day. Cast-off casings and even a phallic animal out of Sigmund Freud’s worst nightmare have also washed or crawled ashore. As this list of 10 bizarre objects found on beaches indicates, the mysteries of the deep are strange, indeed.
10 Glowing Rock On February 22, 2021, Mantana Dao Pibul decided to go for a walk on the beach in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand. There, she saw a piece of coral. Collecting it as a souvenir, she took a closer look at her discovery and found that the bizarre object was glowing! She shone the light from her phone on the strange specimen, and, when its red color brightened, she wondered whether the obj
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We have all heard the ongoing allegations of toxic pollution spewing from big business destroying our environment and killing us, cancer rates and respiratory diseases on the increase because of big businesses polluting for profit. These are some of the many emotionally charged allegations leveled by environmental groups.
These types of allegations are many times overstated. Consider a couple of examples.
Air quality
The Clean Air Act required and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established national ambient air quality standards for pollutants considered harmful to public health and the environment. As a measure of the quality of air in our country, the U.S. EPA maintains data and statistics that quantify air quality over the past decades. Based on the U.S. EPA’s own data, the national ambient air quality standards for the target