Tag: water

  • California Drought Forces Fisheries to Truck Salmon Smolts to Sea

    Every year between late March and early June, roughly 30 million Chinook salmon make their way from five Central Valley hatcheries to the Pacific Ocean. This year, however, these young salmon—called smolts—face a perilous journey due to California’s enduring drought. [caption id="attachment_328124" align="alignnone" width="500"] Drought conditions in California mean that there isn’t much rainfall or…

  • EPA Rule Would Close Loopholes in Clean Water Act, Restore Protections for Streams and Wetlands

    Today, in the biggest step forward for clean water in more than a decade, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to close loopholes in the Clean Water Act that leave more than half of America’s streams and millions of acres of wetlands at risk of unchecked pollution…

  • How a 30-Second Video Could Land You a 5 Gyres Expedition Seat

    The 5 Gyres Institute is searching for some help with a June expedition to Iceland, and a 30-to-45-second video could land you a spot on its Sea Dragon sailing vessel. Three years ago, the nonprofit organization found evidence of plastic in all five oceanic current systems as part of the world’s first global survey of plastic marine pollution. Now, the…

  • Evidence Finds BP Gulf Oil Disaster Causing Widespread Deformities in Fish

    Crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster causes severe defects in the developing hearts of bluefin and yellowfin tunas, according to a new study by a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and academic scientists. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the 25th anniversary of the…

  • 25 Years After Exxon Valdez: ‘It’s Worse Than We Thought’

    When it comes to oil spills, there’s no substitute for prevention. The trouble is, 25 years after the Exxon Valdez spill fouled Alaska’s Prince William Sound and four years after the horrific events in the Gulf brought on by the Deepwater Horizon blowout, we can’t seem to stop spewing oil into our waterways. This NPR…