Each year on the United Nations-designated World Water Day, March 22, people around the world consider the importance of fresh water to ecosystems and to us. On World Water Day 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
Ecology
Mar 22, 2018
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Kodiak brown bears are abandoning salmon-their iconic prey-due to climate change, according to a new study.
Ecology
Aug 23, 2017
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A recent study from UBC's Okanagan campus identifies new genetic markers in sockeye salmon that can help improve management of fish populations.
Ecology
May 25, 2017
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One of Alaska's most abundant freshwater fish species is altering its breeding patterns in response to climate change. This could impact the ecology of northern lakes, which already acutely feel the effects of a changing ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2017
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Sockeye salmon that evolved in the generally colder waters of the far north still know how to cool off if necessary, an important factor in the species' potential for dealing with global climate change.
Ecology
Dec 7, 2016
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Water bubbles and the distant rumble-swoosh of rapids can be heard upstream. On shore the occasional bird calls from the surrounding forest. Under the water you are fighting your way upstream, acutely aware of your waning ...
Ecology
Mar 2, 2016
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Even fish look forward to retirement.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2015
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More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.
Ecology
Jul 27, 2015
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Drought and record hot weather are producing lethal conditions for salmon and trout in rivers across the West.
Ecology
Jul 9, 2015
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A massive federal habitat restoration effort in the Columbia River Basin has spent more than $700 million on breaching levies, restoring tidal channels, reconnecting floodplains and other actions meant to boost salmon and ...
Ecology
Jun 21, 2015
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