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AVALON, Calif. – Conservationists are giving a herd of bison on Santa Catalina Island birth control in an attempt to reduce the population. Females over the age of 2 will be injected with a contraceptive under a five-year experimental program that began Friday.
About 70 endangered frogs returned to the wild Tuesday after an infancy spent in captivity.
About 70 endangered frogs returned to the wild Tuesday after an infancy spent in captivity.
VANCOUVER — State wildlife officials have begun a three-year research effort to learn more about elk populations around Mount St. Helens and elsewhere in Southwest Washington.
KINGSTON – Old gill nets littering the sea floor are the silent killers of the Puget Sound.
WASHINGTON – After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list.
BARCELONA, Spain – U.N. climate negotiators said Friday that it still is possible to conclude a strong, 192-nation deal to define future work in fighting global warming, despite low expectations for setting legally binding emissions targets next month.
WASHINGTON – A year from now, roughly 1,000 all-electric vehicles will be whispering around the Puget Sound are as part of a federally funded project that eventually might lead to an electric corridor stretching from Eugene, Ore., to Vancouver, B.C., where you could swipe your card and receive a 15-minute quick charge to speed you on your way.
Biologist Steve Fransen calls the record pink salmon run that has area anglers whooping for joy “nature at its finest.”
The ocean dead zone that formed this summer off Oregon was less severe than in years past, but it looks like the phenomenon apparently linked to global warming is here to stay.
DIAMOND LAKE, Ore. – When Sharon Karr’s cabin was built on the shores of this high mountain lake in 1928, there were few neighbors and little thought given to the prospects of wildfire.
The Tacoma area on Thursday officially received a dirty air designation from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which branded it as one of 31 most polluted places in the country.
Is global warming shrinking Mount Rainier? A survey marker atop the Northwest’s tallest peak sure makes it look that way.
WASHINGTON – America’s national parks are at risk of disappearing or being fundamentally changed as seas rise, glaciers melt, trees die and animal habitat changes as a result of climate change, according to a report Thursday from two environmental groups.
Blocked more than 100 years by man-made dikes, the waters of Puget Sound returned to the Nisqually River estuary Wednesday, creating a watery landscape few if any people alive today have ever seen.
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