Christopher Hurtado pleaded guilty to animal cruelty for attacking a sick sea lion in Ventura, also admitting to drug ...

According to the Ventura County district attorney’s office, 32-year-old Christopher Hurtado found a sea lion sickened by the toxic algae bloom stranded on the rocks. He kicked it and beat it with a ...

Christopher Hurtado of Santa Paula pled guilty on June 16 to two felonies after beating a sickened sea lion on the beach next ...

A man pleaded guilty to attacking a sea lion, a Fillmore man faces charges for illegal gun sales and Santa Paula police search for sex crime victims.

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Now, 32-year-old Christopher Hurtado, of Santa Paula, has pleaded guilty “to two felony counts related to the beating of a sea lion suffering on a Ventura beach from recent algae blooms,” the Ventura ...

A Santa Paula man who was caught on surveillance video beating a sick sea lion with a large stick has pleaded guilty to felony charges and now faces up to three years in state prison. Christopher ...

A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in ...

A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key ...

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Climate change, plastic pollution, disappearing ecosystems, and industrial overreach are converging into a single, planetary ...