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The oxygen concentration in the Hood Canal was at record-high levels at the beginning of the year but has been dropping rapidly since May, increasing the risk of fish kills this fall.
WASHINGTON – Highly invasive mussels are lurking on the Northwest’s doorstep, threatening to gum up the dams that produce the region’s cheap electricity, clog drinking water and irrigation systems, jeopardize entire aquatic ecosystems and upset efforts to revive such endangered species as salmon.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – With the world’s oceans facing mounting threats from pollution, climate change and overfishing, the Obama administration Friday held the first of several public hearings intended to help it draft a coordinated policy for managing the health of the seas.
An ambitious effort to save Pierce County’s vanishing open spaces is getting its first test on two modest family tree farms.
WASHINGTON – Using sophisticated seismometers and GPS devices, scientists have been able to track minute movements along two massive tectonic plates colliding 25 miles or so underneath Washington state’s Puget Sound basin. Their early findings suggest that a mega-earthquake could strike closer to the Seattle-Tacoma area, home to some 3.6 million people, than was thought earlier.
BOISE, Idaho – Federal hydropower officials will buzz two Idaho mountain rivers this week with helicopter-mounted cameras typically used for tracking illegal immigrants or finding dangerous transmission-line hotspots.
bellingham – Under a microscope, Heterosigma akashiwo looks like a potato or a cornflake. To the naked eye, sea lettuce is a big, green sheet of seaweed. In most cases, these different algae are food for the ocean’s vegetarians.
RICHLAND – Employees of Environmental Assessment Services are living the good life this summer, getting paid to go fishing.
If you’re a fish, here’s an all-too-familiar summertime scene of horror: Humans sudsing up their cars on a steaming parking lot as toxic rivulets of soapy water, engine oil and grime gush down storm drains.
WASHINGTON – For years, the Bush administration was criticized for not cleaning up enough of the nation’s most contaminated waste sites. The Obama administration plans to do even less.
The relentless water, the long hours, millions of dead fish.
When you get right down to it, Jim Wilcox says, he doesn’t really know whether the 600,000 chickens his family keeps in cages are any less happy than the 100,000 that get to go outside every day and stretch their wings in open courtyards.
Compromises between farmers and environmentalists are most difficult in Puget Sound’s river deltas, the broad alluvial flood plains where fresh water in the rivers meets salt water in the Sound.
The Washington Department of Ecology is penalizing Manke Lumber’s Tacoma mill $69,000 for ongoing stormwater management problems and failure to implement corrective actions outlined in a 2007 Ecology order.
National Park Service scientists say increasing levels of nitrogen-rich ammonium might be causing changes in plants and animals at Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks.
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