Author Archives: Celine

No Butts On Our Beaches!

Did You Know? Pacifica’s beaches have been in the smoke-free zone since 2006. Spread the word to help keep harmful butt litter out of the environment and protect our beautiful coastline! Read more about the campaign that created Northern California’s first smoke-free beaches and pier, and about the toxic impact You can make a difference by supporting our current campaign […]

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Past Event: Bee Movie

“Vanishing of the Bees”  Friday Night Documentary Film Night highlighting threatened bees with special guest Loret Farris of the Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County. Held in partnership with Pacifica Libraries, Sharp Park Library on Hilton Way, Pacifica – 7:00pm The movie examines the issue of Colony Collapse Disorder, which has caused startling numbers of honeybees to disappear in recent years. […]

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The Ultimate Mouthful: Lunge-feeding in Rorqual Whales

Some of the largest baleen whales—such as blue whales, fin whales and humpbacks—fall into a family called rorquals that use an unusual method of feeding. These whales feed on aggregations of zooplankton and fish by lunging with their mouths open wide to tremendous gape angles to force huge volumes of water and prey into their expandable oral cavities. This extreme […]

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Tunitas Creek, All Cleaned Up!

Right before the rain, 11 volunteers joined us on a short notice to clean Tunitas Creek before the rain. Unfortunately, because of the high tides, a lot of the trash was covered in sand when we arrived but we still cleaned up ~400 LBS of debris. From office chair, to ropes, beer cans and broken glass, our courageous team did […]

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5 Trillion Pieces of Floating Plastic

A major new study of the world’s oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world. With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that’s nearly 700 pieces per person. The study, published in the journal PLOS One by Marcus Eriksen of theFive […]

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