La Jolla Community Center plans June 15 reopening
The La Jolla Community Center will reopen its doors Tuesday, June 15, after being closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
LJCC will follow a hybrid model, continuing its current online offerings and adding in-person events. All classes and events will take place in the center’s open-air courtyard or the larger Great Room.
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4:50 PM, May. 25, 2021This article’s headline and photo have been corrected to reflect that the La Jolla Community Center plans to reopen June 15.
Visitors will be required to maintain social distancing and wear a mask inside the center.
Vanderbilt University today announced a new collaboration with the nonprofit organization Climate Vault that allows the university to address the full.
Program continues to expand and achieve greater environmental benefits
The partners in an initiative to cut air pollution and protect endangered whales announced results from the 2020 program and recognized the shipping companies that successfully participated, reducing speeds to 10 knots or less in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southern California region. The program’s new Southern California region extends from Point Arguello (in Santa Barbara County) to waters near Dana Point (by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach).
The voluntary incentive program, called “Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies,” ran May 15, 2020 through November 15, 2020.
Shipping companies receive recognition and financial awards based on the percent of distance traveled by their vessels through the Vessel Speed Reduction (VSR) zones at 10 knots or less and with an average speed of 12 knots or less. The 10-knot target complements the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA
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A tiny group of East Pacific green sea turtles has permanently settled in the waters off La Jolla Shores, where they’re socializing with snorkelers and divers, a subtle change in nature that has left scientists a bit puzzled.
The four resident turtles are living in a largely unprotected stretch of coastline, which also is unusual. And they’re swimming in water that sometimes gets colder than the animals’ typical habitat.
“We appear to be seeing the result of 30 years of conservation efforts that has increased the population of green sea turtles, and some are expanding into new territories to forage,” said Megan Hanna, a UC San Diego-trained marine biologist who just published a study on the La Jolla turtles in the journal