As many of you know, I grew up around the controversy around the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest and what that meant for the timber industry. My dad was a plywood mill worker who felt his job was threatened by the owl. In...
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Back in 1997, I drove from Oregon to Tennessee to start graduate school. Had never been the most of the nation before. So I was pretty excited. One of the.
If you were wondering how the heat bubble of the Northwest and Canada impacted marine life, well, it ain't good. Chris Harley smelled Kitsilano Beach before he even arrived.The odour.
The decline of the red knot is both predictable and fixable. If only the pharmaceutical industry gave a damn about it. The number of red knots visiting the Delaware Bay beaches during this spring’s northbound migration unexpectedly dropped to its lowest since tallies began almost...
Oh good god. A dozen dead Barn and Violet-green Swallows huddled together on the dusty desert floor of southern New Mexico. Numerous Western Bluebirds packed into a crevice in southern Colorado as.
In case climate change wasn't stressing the world's species enough, human politics and failure to govern is driving many of them to extinction. The story of the monarch butterfly, an.
Just in case you were wondering how much the extinctions of the past few hundred years are caused by humans, the answer is nearly all of them. Not so long ago, the northern seas were full of great auks. Every summer, millions of the two-toned,...
The planet is dying and we pay absolutely no attention. The world's oceans are struggling to breathe, rapidly running out of oxygen at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is dangerously.
The story of how humans are turning the ocean into an ecologically barren trash-strewn watery desert is even more depressing than most contemporary environmental news. Researchers studying baby fish off.
Ever since the giant dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers were constructed in the mid-20th century, people have known that they destroy salmon runs. The 4 huge dams on the lower Snake are particularly awful and unnecessary. But because the people in Lewiston are...
Here's a "fun" visualization of seven species whose numbers are so low that they could all theoretically fit in a train car. Good job humans. And especially good job capitalism.
The news isn't depressing enough. For the last three years, not one calf has been born to the dwindling pods of black-and-white killer whales spouting geysers of mist off the.