Study suggests US freshwater fish highly contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
One more reason to practice catch and release. A new study finds that eating just one serving of freshwater fish each year could have the …
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What a long, strange trip to kill four dams
After a 50-year effort, four massive dams on the Klamath River in northern California and Oregon will start coming down this July. Why has there …
Which Wetlands to Protect? Supreme Court Will Soon Decide
The U.S. loses about 60,000 acres of wetlands a year. An upcoming Supreme Court decision could settle decades of legal ambiguity about which wetlands should …
Feds inch toward listing California, Oregon Spring Chinook salmon as threatened
The Biden administration will consider adding spring-run Chinook salmon in Oregon and Northern California to the endangered or threatened species lists. “Based on the information …
The rock-hurling spat that could upend Colorado’s river access rules
The Colorado Supreme Court will wade into a technical aspect in angler Roger Hill’s lawsuit arguing Colorado rivers are public property if they were used …
Forest Service Urged to Reject Massive Idaho Gold Mine
A planned open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm endangered species, violate Indigenous treaty …
California’s endangered salmon population plummets amid new threat
They’ve been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat, and even the flare of wildfires, but now California’s endangered winter-run Chinook …
Third straight D+ for the Chesapeake Bay
Scientists at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation graded the estuary’s health at a D+ for the third time in a row, with the blue crab population …
New Columbia River Protections Under EPA Permits
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop oil and other toxic chemical discharges into the Columbia River in Washington and …
Why Is the Forest Service Dumping Christmas Trees into Ohio Lakes?
During the week after Christmas, U.S. Forest Service employees gather hundreds of old Christmas trees, lash them to cinder blocks, and then dump them into …