Ship Strikes Kill Gray Whales in San Francisco Bay Area
change can affect water temperatures which impacts on the availability of food for the whales, which can grow to nearly 50 feet long and migrate about 10,000 miles every year between feeding grounds in the cold, north Pacific waters and breeding grounds in warm-water lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula.The species is not currently considered endangered but is protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act in the United States.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries division tracks whale populations. Its last published study in 2016 found a population of 27,000 gray
Hurricane Blanca Weakens off Mexico
Hurricane Blanca weakened to a category 2 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast on Thursday but it is forecast to strengthen as it heads toward tourist resorts at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Blanca, the second hurricane to form off Mexico's Pacific coast this year, was about 465 miles (750 km) south of the major port of Manzanillo, with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 km), the Miami-based NHC said in a report. It had earlier been a powerful category 4 storm on the five-step scale of hurricane strength.
February 2025
