It has been a really bad week for the ice shelves of the quickly warming Antarctic peninsula, the part of the vast frozen continent that extends northward toward South America.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Biloxi and west of Gautier. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,225 at the 2000 U.S. Census. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city of Ocean Springs had a population of 17,442.
On August 12, the Cape May County Health Department closed 1st Street beach in Ocean City again as a precaution due to another sewage overflow from the same public restroom. Beach closings were extended the following day to Stenton Avenue north of 1st Street and south to 3rd Street pending water quality sample results.