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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials in Southern California are warning people to avoid eating raw oysters from parts of Mexico after more than 200 people recently fell ill with suspected cases of norovirus. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has reported more than 150 suspected cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to raw oysters, while in San Diego County, health officials said Thursday that they had 69 confirmed and probable cases. That was based, at least in part, on the findings of an investigation conducted by San Diego County health officials. The California Department of Public Health warned consumers that raw oysters harvested from those locations may be contaminated with the norovirus, which can cause diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. The norovirus cases included both restaurant patrons and consumers who bought oysters at shops and ate them at home.

Persons: Laguna Manuela Organizations: ANGELES, — Health, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, The U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Wednesday, FDA, Laguna De Guerrero Negro, California Department of Public Health Locations: Southern California, Mexico, Los, San Diego County, Orange , Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura counties, The U.S, Mexican, Sonora, of California, Laguna, Baja California, Estero Morua, San Diego

Still, the queen conch is one of many vulnerable species not included on Mexico's national endangered species list. In the meantime, species like the queen conch have lacked federal environmental protection and moved steadily toward extinction. Political Cartoons View All 1267 ImagesOfficials accept proposals to list species only during set periods for public comment. In particular, Mexico lists 535 species as endangered, its worst risk rating, whereas IUCN lists nearly 1,500 species in Mexico as either endangered or critically endangered. If a species is included on Mexico’s list in any category, all commercial uses of that species are banned.

Persons: Alejandro Olivera, ” Olivera, It's, Olivera, Angélica Cervantes Maldonado, Rodrigo Jorge, Jorge Organizations: MEXICO CITY, —, Center for Biological Diversity, Fish, Wildlife Service, National Autonomous University, U.S . National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, The International Union for Conservation of, IUCN, UNESCO Locations: MEXICO, Banco Chinchorro, Belize, Mexico, Mexican, La Paz, of California, The U.S, elkhorn, Caribbean, Ecuador, Madagascar, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Gulf of California

☆ Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 29
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Wsj Arts In Review Staff | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An orca hunts down a group of mobula rays in the Gulf of California in ‘Planet Earth III’ Photo: BBC AmericaFilm• “What Happens Later” (Nov. 3): Meg Ryan is in the director’s chair for only the second time in her career, helming this romcom. She also stars alongside David Duchovny as a pair of exes who bump into each other at the airport and reconnect after a flight delay. • “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” (Nov. 3): The beauty and hardships of growing up black in rural Mississippi are explored in Raven Jackson’s debut feature, which follows a girl from youth to adulthood.

Persons: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Raven Organizations: BBC America Locations: Gulf of California, Mississippi

☆ Hurricane Norma makes landfall near resorts of Los Cabos on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Strong waves caused by hurricane Norma hits a beach in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Hurricane Norma has made landfall near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. Hotels in Los Cabos remained about three-quarters full of tourists, but shelters were set up at schools in the resorts. Residents of Los Cabos resorts rushed to prepare as Norma approached, while in the Atlantic, Hurricane Tammy threatened to batter the islands of the Lesser Antilles. The Los Cabos Civil Defense agency urged residents to stay indoors all day as winds and rain increased.

Persons: Norma, Todos Santos, Hurricane Tammy, Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, Maribel Collins, José, Homero Blanco, Tammy, Tropical Storm Phillippe, Hurricane Irma, Philippe, Gaston Browne Organizations: U.S, National Hurricane Center, Lesser Antilles, Saturday, Civil Defense, Police, National Guard, Guard, Hurricane, Tropical, Residents, St Locations: San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, Cabos, Mexico's Baja California, Todos, Cortez, of California, Baja, Sinaloa, Los Cabos, Los, Hurricane, Lesser, Cabo San, Pacific, Baja California, Baja California Sur, San Jose, Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, St, Kitts, Nevis, Caribbean, Martinique, St John's

“Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves,” the hurricane center said. “These rains will likely produce flash and urban flooding, along with possible mudslides in areas of higher terrain,” the National Hurricane Center warned. Tammy is expected to move near or over portions of the Leeward Islands – including Guadeloupe and Antigua and Barbuda – through Saturday night, and then move north of the northern Leeward Islands on Sunday. A storm surge of 1 to 3 feet is possible for parts of the Leeward Islands. Rainfall totals for the Leeward Islands are expected to be 4 to 8 inches, but could reach a foot in places where the heaviest rain sets up.

Persons: Norma, Cabo San, Cabo San Lucas –, Tammy –, San, Tammy, Michael Lowry, It’s, Phil Klotzbach, – Vince, Whitney – Organizations: CNN, National Hurricane Center, Barbuda –, Hurricanes, of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University . Hurricane, British, US, US Virgin Islands Locations: Atlantic, Mexico’s Baja California Sur, Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Leeward Islands, Baja California Sur, San Lucas, California Baja, Mexico’s Sinaloa, of California, Mexico, Leeward, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Barbuda, Puerto Rico, US Virgin

PHOENIX (AP) — After a summer of extreme heat, Arizona’s most populous city is in the record books again. The National Weather Service said Sunday that the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to September 30. Phoenix’s average rainfall during a monsoon season is 2.43 inches (6.1 centimeters). Confirmed heat-associated deaths in Arizona’s most populous county continue to rise in the aftermath of the record summer heat. Scientists predict the numbers will only continue to climb as climate change makes heat waves more frequent, intense and enduring.

Persons: Phoenix Organizations: PHOENIX, National Weather Service Locations: Pacific, Gulf of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, U.S, Arizona’s, Maricopa County, Maricopa, Phoenix, United States

☆ Vaquita porpoise: Extinction alert issued for critically endangered marine mammal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Amaya Mcdonald | Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. The scientific committee believes the vaquita population has a chance of recovery if stronger enforcement is placed on the ban on gillnets in their habitat. The vaquita population has varied from a few thousand to 5,000 over the last 250,000 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But maintaining a small population for so long has actually helped the vaquitas, which have a 21-year lifespan, reducing the risks of inbreeding because they have less genetic variation among them. The marine mammals are also less susceptible to harmful genetic mutations that might otherwise cause their offspring to die.

Persons: ” Vaquitas “, Kate Wilson, ” Kirk Lohmueller, CNN’s Kristen Rogers Organizations: CNN, Whaling Commission, International Union for Conservation, IWC, Gulf of, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, University of California Locations: Gulf of California, Mexico, Gulf, China, Mexico’s Gulf of California, Cortez, Los Angeles

☆ Extinction alert issued for Mexico's threatened vaquita porpoise
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A mother and calf vaquita, a critically endangered small tropical porpoise native to MexicoÕs Gulf of California, surface in the waters off San Felipe, Mexico in this handout picture taken in 2008. Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries/Handout via REUTERS/ File PhotoMEXICO CITY, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The International Whaling Commission (IWC) said on Monday it has issued an extinction alert for the endangered vaquita porpoise, whose population is estimated to have shrunk to less than a dozen, marking the institution's first-ever extinction warning. The critically endangered vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise and native to Mexico's Gulf of California, has been imperiled by illegal gill net fishing for an endangered fish called the totoaba, whose bladder is highly valued in Asia. The alert, the IWC said, stems from its belief that a new mechanism is needed "to voice extinction concerns for an increasing range of cetacean species and populations." "The extinction of the vaquita is inevitable unless 100% of gillnets are substituted immediately with alternative fishing gears that protect the vaquita and the livelihoods of fishers," it said.

Persons: Paula Olson, Matthew Lewis Organizations: NOAA Fisheries, REUTERS, Whaling Commission, IWC, U.S, Carolina, Thomson Locations: MexicoÕs Gulf of California, San Felipe, Mexico, MEXICO, Mexico's Gulf of California, Asia, U.S

CNN —An Australian sailor who spent months adrift in the Pacific Ocean alongside his beloved dog has recounted his remarkable tale of surviving on raw fish and rainwater after finally making it safely back to dry land. Sailor Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock and his dog Bella survived on raw fish and rainwater after being stranded for three months in the Pacific Ocean. CNNThe pair were eventually spotted in the Eastern Pacific Ocean “more than 1,200 miles from land,” according to Grupomar, the company that owns the tuna boat, in a tweet on Monday. The boat’s crew, led by Captain Óscar Meza Oregón, provided Shaddock with medical attention, hydration, and food, according to Grupomar. “I don’t know how far out in the ocean again I’ll be, you know, but I think I just love the nature,” he said.

Persons: Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock, Bella, ”, Shaddock, I’m, Polynesia –, “, Captain Óscar Meza Oregón, ” Antonio Suarez, ” Shaddock, he’ll “ Organizations: CNN Locations: Australian, Mexican, Manzanillo, Mexico City, “, Mexico, Cortes, of California, Polynesia

☆ Magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes the Gulf of California
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 18 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the Gulf of California on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake struck at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), EMSC said. The U.S. Tsunami Warning system said there was no tsunami danger for the U.S. West Coast, British Columbia, or Alaska following the quake. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) pegged the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.3. Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: EMSC, Rishabh, Chris Reese Organizations: Mediterranean Seismological, U.S ., Geological Survey, Thomson Locations: of California, U.S, U.S . West Coast , British Columbia, Alaska, Bengaluru

☆ Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Christopher Flavelle | Adriana Zehbrauskas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fifty miles south of the U.S. border, at the edge of a city on the Gulf of California, a few acres of dusty shrubs could determine the future of Arizona. The idea of building a desalination plant in Mexico has been discussed in Arizona for years. But now, a $5 billion project proposed by an Israeli company is under serious consideration, an indication of how worries about water shortages are rattling policymakers in Arizona and across the American West. On June 1, the state announced that the Phoenix area, the fastest-growing region in the country, doesn’t have enough groundwater to support all the future housing that has already been approved. Cities and developers that want to build additional projects beyond what has already been allowed would have to find new sources of water.

Locations: U.S, of California, Arizona, Colorado, Mexico, Phoenix

☆ Video and Photos Show a Tiny, Critically Endangered Porpoise Still Hanging On
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Catrin Einhorn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise called the vaquita, is hanging onto existence and appears to be benefiting from new conservation measures, according to the results of a new scientific survey of the species that was made public on Wednesday. An international team of scientists estimated that at least 10 vaquitas remain in the Gulf of California, the waters that separate Baja California from the Mexican mainland. The porpoises are found nowhere else and have been driven to the brink of extinction by drowning in gill nets, a type of fishing gear that drifts like a huge mesh curtain, catching fish by their gills. Dolphins, sea turtles and vaquitas get stuck, too, dying when they can’t surface to breathe. “Today, we have good news, hopeful news,” María Luisa Albores González, Mexico’s secretary of environment and natural resources, said at a news conference announcing the survey results.

Persons: ” María Luisa Albores González Locations: Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexican

MEXICO CITY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, pressuring the U.S. government to sanction Mexico for failing to protect the critically endangered vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise, according to court documents. The lawsuit seeks to pressure the U.S. government to sanction Mexico under a fisheries law called the "Pelly Amendment" to the Fishermen's Protective Act, which authorizes the U.S. President to embargo imports of wildlife products, including fish, from another country. The vaquita porpoise, found in Mexico's upper Gulf of California, has over the last five years seen its population devastated to the point that it is now considered in "serious danger of extinction." The other organizations that joined the lawsuit are the Animal Welfare Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In mid-November, CITES - an international convention to protect endangered species - told Mexico it must protect the vaquita or face sanctions early next year.

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