Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 30, 2010.
Friday’s rain will linger through this morning, but give way to a relatively dry and only partly cloudy weekend.
But don’t put your rain gear away just yet.
Cloudiness is predicted to increase on Monday leading to light showers returning periodically throughout the week, said meteorologist Steve Anderson of the National Weather Service in Monterey. Read More >
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 24th, 2010.
SANTA CRUZ — Sage Clegg-Haman’s shoes are made for walking and that’s just what they did — seven pairs of them, to be exact.
“I had one pair of shoes that lasted around 900 miles. Those were incredible. I miss them,” she said.
On July 1, Clegg-Haman started her 2,650-mile journey traveling the Pacific Crest Trail on foot.
“I’ve always really liked being outside. I’m more comfortable there than I am indoors or in cities. It was a little pipe dream of mine since I was 14,” said Clegg-Haman, a UC Santa Cruz graduate. Read more >
Santa cruz Sentinel, January 22, 2010.
WATSONVILLE — The Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County not only helps the hungry, but is taking strides to help the environment, too.
Funding from Watsonville and Santa Cruz County has helped install tubs to convert the Food Bank”s kitchen scraps and spoiled produce into compost.
“It”s a nice partnership, because the food waste they were unable to use would end up in our landfill,” said Nancy Lockwood, environmental projects manager for the city of Watsonville. Read More >
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 17th, 2010.
Complications kill or maim up to 30 percent of pregnant women in Nigeria, one of the highest rates in the world.
That statistic is what drew Evelyn Castle and Adam Thompson to Nigeria last summer, working with UC Santa Cruz’s Global Information Internship Program to improve maternal and child health in the West African nation.
“All of their medical records are paper, which can easily get ruined or lost,” Castle said. “The information was there, they just often aren’t able to access it.” Read More >
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 12th, 2010.
WATSONVILLE — The battle against childhood obesity in the Pajaro Valley is getting some help.
The United Way of Santa Cruz County announced Monday its Go For Health! program has received $360,000 to work on the problem during the next four years.
The programs funded by the grant will “make it easier for people to make healthy choices,” said Go For Health! program coordinator Laura Young. “Right now the easiest choices are the least healthy.” Read More >
WIREDScience Blog, December 17th, 2009.
SAN FRANCISCO – A glint of light from a large lake confirms the presence of surface liquid in Titan’s northern hemisphere. This image, released Thursday here at the American Geophysical Union meeting, was captured on July 8, using the Cassini spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
“This one image communicates so much about Titan – thick atmosphere, surface lakes and an otherworldliness,” said Cassini project scientist Bob Pappalardo, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a press release. “It’s an unsettling combination of strangeness yet similarity to Earth.” Read More >