Monthly Archives: July 2014
California drought: ‘May have to migrate people’
California drought: ‘May have to migrate people’ Damian Dovarganes | AP Photo Michael Korte walks on the brown lawn in front of his home in Glendora, Calif. It’s going from worse to worst each week in California. Suffering in … Continue reading
Why You Need a Bedtime Snack
Why You Need a Bedtime Snack Sleep. It mentally recharges you for the next day, rests your heart and rebuilds damaged muscles to prime you for another day of training. Sleep is also a time of fasting. If you … Continue reading
California’s Water Wars- Environmentalist efforts to save the delta smelt!
California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks to the brilliant hydrological engineering of past generations of Californians. But now there is a new element in the century-old water calculus: a demand that the state’s inland waters flow as pristinely as they supposedly did before the age of dams, reservoirs, and canals. Only that way can California’s rivers, descending from their mountain origins, reach the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta year-round. Only that way, environmentalists say, can a three-inch delta fish be saved and salmon runs from the Pacific to the interior restored. Continue reading
Journey to the Clouds
Journey to the Clouds Wars have been fought over me. When condensed in the atmosphere, I can refract sunlight to form a rainbow. I am often called the universal solvent. From a molecular standpoint, I resemble Mickey Mouse. Most of … Continue reading
10 Foods to Eat so You Never Have to Diet
10 Foods to Eat so You Never Have to Diet Garlic This herb does more than just give meals extra flavor and scent–it can also help keep your tummy flat through its naturally occurring chemical allicin, says registered dietitian and … Continue reading