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BANGKOK – Two years ago, governments from around the world came together on the island of Bali and agreed to urgently rein in the heat-trapping gases blamed for deadly heat waves, melting glaciers and rising seas.
An extended stay for five transient killer whales in South Sound entered its fourth week Monday amid reports that some boaters are violating guidelines for viewing the mighty marine mammals.
WASHINGTON – In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Washington state and Idaho includes studying the possibility of breaching four major hydroelectric dams if other steps don’t reverse the decline.
MACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, Northwest Territories – Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence – and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world.
CHICAGO – This is a fish tale in which smaller is better than bigger, especially if the catch is to be eaten in any quantity.
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.
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