The Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of the Pacific Northwest on September 05, 2017. Due to the huge number of wildfires that ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2017
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Hot, dry conditions in the summertime make wildfires likely to plague the Pacific Northwest and California. This year, however, record-dry conditions, record breaking heat and a spate of lightning storms is a recipe for ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2017
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A group that represents farmers is calling the costs of saving imperiled salmon in the largest river system in the Pacific Northwest unsustainable and is turning to the Trump administration to sidestep endangered species ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2017
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There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. But not much is known about the sediment and animal life along the sea floor in the region.
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2017
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New research finds large earthquakes can trigger underwater landslides thousands of miles away, weeks or months after the quake occurs.
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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Steelhead trout are entrenched in the economy, ecology, and culture of the Pacific Northwest. Declining numbers of steelhead in the rivers flowing through British Columbia, Washington state, and Oregon are troubling fishers ...
Ecology
Jun 26, 2017
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For hundreds of years, a species of flying squirrel was hiding right under (actually, above) our noses.
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2017
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The Pacific Northwest faces two stark choices for managing its forests, scientists suggest in a new book. One choice leads to stagnant or declining rural communities and risks to some native species, and the other leads to ...
Environment
May 10, 2017
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Pacific Northwest engineers have developed a new, automated technology to analyze the potential for rockfalls from cliffs onto roads and areas below, which should speed and improve this type of risk evaluation, help protect ...
Engineering
Apr 12, 2017
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The future of earthquake early warning systems may be contained in smartphones—and vehicles, and "smart" appliances and the increasing number of everyday objects embedded with sensors and communication chips that connect ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2017
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