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Jun 18, 2024
Chinook Salmon in Hot Water
There may not be tumbleweed blowing through the salty streets of California’s coastal marinas, but the collapse of the state’s Chinook salmon runs has...
Jun 13, 2024
Climactic Climate
As temperatures rise, hope floats
Last year was the planet’s warmest 12-month span in at least two millennia, beating out the prior record year of...
May 15, 2024
Have SF water policies led to salmon collapse?
As California’s native Chinook salmon populations dwindle, prompting a shutdown of the fishing industry, environmentalists are pleading with water supply managers for a change...
Jul 21, 2021
Salmon Suffer In a State of Drought
So many salmon once spawned each year in the Central Valley that humans all but lived on them, and chemical traces of the fish...
Nov 6, 2019
Saving Salmon
Salmon three feet long seem to clog the water as the chrome-colored fish, fresh from the ocean, begin their journey upriver toward the high-elevation...
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Oct 2, 2019
Urchin Matters
Kelp Killers Unbridled urchins are a menace to aquatic plants and abalone.
Some breathe through scuba gear, while others hold their breath—and each carries a...
May 7, 2014
Morel of the Story
One of the biggest flushes of morel mushrooms in living memory, a sought-after, spring-time ingredient at many top-tier restaurants, is now bursting from the...
Feb 12, 2014
After the Deluge
Last weekend, rain fell in drenching, gushing sheets across Northern California. Stream levels bounced up, fish again had room to swim and farmers saw...