Aloha Three Little Pigs Friday!
In 1933 Walt Disney's cartoon "Three Little Pigs" was
released. The animated short film is one of the best-known
cartoons of all time. In 1934, it was awarded the Academy
Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Bacteria
causing fish skin disease spiked around fish farms, a study
finds
A bacteria known to cause skin disease in fish was found to
peak in juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon in the Discovery
Islands region, with one particularly big spike in 2015, a new
study finds.
WA
will soon put a price on carbon emissions for its biggest
polluters. Here’s how it will work
A new program launching in January will put a cap on fossil
fuel emissions and require nearly a hundred of the state’s
biggest polluters to partake in a carbon trading scheme.
A
climate bill that died in Legislature lives on, in plans for
future
A bill requiring cities and counties to cut greenhouse gases
failed to pass, but they’re planning to do it anyway.
Diving
for trash in Snohomish River, biologist fills 59 pickup beds
At Thomas’ Eddy, Doug Ewing estimates he has collected 3,000
pounds of lead fishing weights. And that’s just one spot.
Letting
the Sea Have Its Way
Welcome to Medmerry, a community that welcomed back the marsh.
[An] excerpt is from the book Water Always Wins, in
which Hakai contributor Erica Gies follows innovators in what
she calls the Slow Water movement who are instead asking a
revolutionary question: what does water want?
The
US has spent more than $2B on a plan to save salmon. The
fish are vanishing anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific
Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done.
But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing
system of hatcheries.
EPA
proposes protections for world’s biggest sockeye salmon
fishery
The Biden administration’s decision to protect Bristol Bay
deals a blow to a huge proposed gold and copper mine in
southwest Alaska.
Could
artificial reefs protect B.C.'s coastlines from climate
change?
Only ever used on a piece of public art in B.C., Metro
Vancouver will trial biorock technology as a way to create new
habitat for sea creatures, regrow coastal infrastructure and
protect shorelines threatened by climate change.
B.C.
to release 'full' climate adaptation strategy this spring
The B.C. government expects to release a climate adaptation
strategy in the coming weeks, but it is unclear whether the
plan will include elements that experts say are needed to make
it effective.
Nearly
extinct 30 years ago, Washington’s western pond turtles are
slowly recovering
Only two species of turtles in Washington are native. And one
of those, the western pond turtle, nearly went extinct here in
the 1990s. 30 years ago, the state began collaborating with
partners at the Woodland Park Zoo to bring them back.
Docs show turmoil in DFO following fisheries harassment investigation: ‘this article is horrific’
Freedom of information documents reveal that DFO has created a suite of
new policies and is spending millions on modernization in wake of
whistleblowers speaking up about harassment, intimidation and assault
aboard Canadian fishing vessels.
J-Pod whales spotted in Salish Sea
All 25 members of J-Pod have returned to the Salish Sea, including the
newest member, born in late February. Scientist Monika Wieland-Shields
of the Orca Behavior Institute said it’s only the second time in the
past five years that J-Pod has appeared in the Salish Sea in May. That’s
a good sign, she said, and the fact the pod seems to be sticking around
indicates there is chinook salmon for the whales to feed on.
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