By Kathryn Reed Today will be Linda Kaczmar’s last reconstructive surgery. It is one of many milestones for her in 2013. It was not a decision she thought she would have to make again. When she went through all the breast cancer treatments 10 years ago she believed she was done with oncology wards. But […]
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By Justin White, Washington Post Have you heard about FOMO — “fear of missing out”? Most common among the under-30 crowd, it happens when someone feels nervous about not attending social events, like that awesome party everyone else enjoyed last weekend. People have always been concerned about their social standing, but the explosion of social […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Facing flak for proposing to eliminate some popular tourist amenities in Yosemite National Park, the National Park Service said it needed five more months to finish a plan to “protect and enhance” the Merced River, which runs for 81 miles inside the park. Kathleen Morse, the park’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed While Erline Christopherson doesn’t remember every stroke, she does remember much of the 13 hours, 37 minutes she spent in Lake Tahoe. Fifty-one years ago this month the then-16-year-old made history by becoming the first female to swim the length of Lake Tahoe. This week the Lake Tahoe Museum in South Lake […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times Wildfires such as the Yarnell Hill blaze in Arizona may be warming Earth’s atmosphere far more than previously thought, according to a study by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Researchers at the Department of Energy facility normally chase fires throughout the western U.S., to measure their atmospheric effects. But in […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – A prime piece of real estate on the South Shore sits idle, with no buyer in sight. The empty 36,000-square-foot former Kingsbury Middle School in Stateline is costing the district between $10,000 and $15,000 a month to ensure the alarm is on, pipes don’t freeze and other basics are […]
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By AP Julia Mancuso is holding her breath for the Sochi Olympics. So far, she can stay under water for more than a minute. The Squaw Valley skier incorporated freediving into her training program this summer in Maui, plunging under the ocean’s surface to collect shells and gaze at aquatic life. Mancuso usually spends her […]
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By K. Kaufmann, Desert Sun It’s now official. The decade of 2001-2010 was the warmest on record, causing almost a 2,300 percent spike worldwide in heat-related deaths. That shocking figure is one of many contained in the report, “The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Climate Extremes,” released last week in Geneva by the World […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Should a manmade lake at Lake Tahoe be restored? Or should the acreage be returned to what it was pre-1930s? Those are some of the basic questions being asked by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. The answers aren’t as simple. A handful of people showed up Monday night […]
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By Patricia Craig, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Matt Hurteau spends a lot of time climbing trees. The assistant professor in the Department of Ecosystems Science and Management in the College of Agricultural Sciences, joined Penn State in July 2011, filling an Earth Systems Ecologist position jointly funded by PSIEE and the college. “The […]
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