Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement On a recent cloudy morning, shark researchers from Cal State Long Beach followed a young white shark as it wound its way along the shore off Del Mar in San Diego County.Using a drone to spot the animal and an inflatable boat to follow it, they traced the shark’s path across the rocky reef as it darted past surfers.For the record:The footage they captured didn’t represent a rare appearance of the ocean predator among beachgoers, but an everyday occurrence on the Southern California coastline. White sharks, known popularly as great...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement On a recent cloudy morning, shark researchers from Cal State Long Beach followed a young white shark as it wound its way along the shore off Del Mar in San Diego County.Using a drone to spot the animal and an inflatable boat to follow it, they traced the shark’s path across the rocky reef as it darted past surfers.For the record:The footage they captured didn’t represent a rare appearance of the ocean predator among beachgoers, but an everyday occurrence on the Southern California coastline. White sharks, known popularly as great...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As if to celebrate the reopening of Southern California beaches, the Pacific Ocean threw a party, complete with a light show.Then it left behind a smelly mess of dying algae.The microorganisms produce stunning bioluminescence that has . Red tides occur when they reproduce en masse, staining seawater rusty brown with as many as 20 million cells per liter. A photochemical reaction in the cells when they are jostled by waves emits a flash of electric blue, in a sort of southern, aquatic version of the aurora borealis. As the bloom dies...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As if to celebrate the reopening of Southern California beaches, the Pacific Ocean threw a party, complete with a light show.Then it left behind a smelly mess of dying algae.The microorganisms produce stunning bioluminescence that has . Red tides occur when they reproduce en masse, staining seawater rusty brown with as many as 20 million cells per liter. A photochemical reaction in the cells when they are jostled by waves emits a flash of electric blue, in a sort of southern, aquatic version of the aurora borealis. As the bloom dies...WW…