Climate Change Has Quadrupled Ocean Dead Zones
The size of oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where plants and animals struggle to survive, has increased fourfold around the world, according to a new scientific analysis. …
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Mangroves Lack the Genetic Diversity to Adapt to Climate Change
Mangroves support coastal ecosystems around the world. In the tropics and subtropics, they rim coastlines and estuaries in thick green bands, providing shelter to a …
EPA To Drop ‘E,’ ‘P’ From Name
WASHINGTON, DC—Days after unveiling new power-plant pollution regulations that rely on an industry-favored market-trading approach to cutting mercury emissions, EPA Acting Administrator Stephen Johnson announced …
Acidic oceans, warming rivers devastate salmon runs
What is the future of the Columbia River and its salmon? Look to 2015. That year’s extraordinary combination of overheated river water and low flows …
Climate Change Could Cause Fish to Shrink
In the coming decades, warming ocean temperatures could stunt the growth of fish by as much as 30 percent, according to a new study in the journal Global …
How Climate Change Canceled the Grizzly Salmon Run
On an Alaskan island, one of nature’s greatest spectacles is shutting down due to a warming climate, as brown bears abandon fish in favor of …
Montana anglers need action on climate change
This timely opinion piece in the Billings Gazette by Alec Underwood comes in the midst of an intense drought has quickly gripped much of the Dakotas …
Feeling the Heat: How Fish Are Migrating from Warming Waters
The Cape Cod Canal is a serpentine artificial waterway that winds eight miles from Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay. On warm summer evenings, anglers …
Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River
Between 2000 and 2014, annual Colorado River flows averaged 19% below the 1906–1999 average, the worst 15-year drought on record. Approximately one-third of the flow …
Once there were fish, but then the coal mining began
The stretch of bone-dry, cracked land doesn’t look like much. But until recently, it was a spring, according to rancher L.J. Turner of Wright, Wyo. …