The endangered southern resident killer whale population isn't getting enough to eat, and hasn't been since 2018, a new University of British Columbia (UBC) study has determined.
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2022
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A new study used the same kind of models that scientists use to track disease to instead examine how some California sea lions have learned to prey on salmon gathering to ascend fish ladders at Bonneville Dam.
Ecology
Dec 16, 2016
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The nearly three century old method for naming newly discovered nature will face a rebellion this Friday at Yale University.
Other
Apr 14, 2011
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The resent returns of Atlantic salmon in the Thames are more likely to be a result of fish straying from nearby rivers rather than a consequence of expensive restocking efforts, according to new research by the ...
Ecology
Sep 2, 2011
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Federal scientists have decided Puget Sound killer whales will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Ecology
Aug 2, 2013
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We live in an era—the Anthropocene—where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems. Pollution, human-made climate change and overfishing have all altered marine life and ocean food webs.
Environment
Nov 8, 2019
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Killer whales prefer to eat only the biggest, juiciest Chinook salmon they can find. The larger the fish, the more energy a whale can get for its meal.
Ecology
Dec 16, 2019
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Every fall more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound's urban streams die before they can spawn. In some streams, all of them die. But scientists didn't know why.
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2020
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California Chinook salmon populations have fallen to their lowest levels in years, according to new estimates released by state and federal scientists—a decline that could trigger a shutdown of the commercial and recreational ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2023
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Physicists at the University of Rochester have combed through data from satellites and ocean buoys and found evidence that in the last 50 years, the net flow of heat into and out of the oceans has changed direction three ...
General Physics
Aug 14, 2009
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