Environment
Last-Ditch Plan Aims to Prevent First Drought Extinction of Native Fish
The California drought threatens several of its native fish with extinction. Will the Sacramento River’s winter-run Chinook be the first to go?
Stories by Anne Casselman
Environment
Humans Have Tripled Mercury Levels in the Ocean
Pollution may soon overwhelm deep seas' ability to sequester mercury, which builds up in tuna and other predatory fish
Environment
Will Canada’s Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Muck Up Its Pacific Coast?
Large cracks remain in the science assessing Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline project
Environment
Canada Declares War on Rats
In a bid to buoy flagging seabird populations, park biologists eradicate rats from islands in British Columbia
Mind & Brain
Internet Changes How We Remember
Knowing we can retrieve facts online later alters memory
Environment
First Nations Tribe Combines Science with Legacy of Conservation
Locals with a long history of traditional stewardship of resources are now conducting fisheries surveys to ensure sustainability
Environment
The Bear Truth: Grizzlies' Snagged Hair Samples Reveal Dependence on Salmon
Poor salmon runs along British Columbia's central coast rain forest since 2003 have spurred scientists to gauge the fish's nutritional impact on grizzly bears
The Sciences
Hair of the Bear: Fur Samples Yield Insights into Grizzlies' Salmon Dependence [Slide Show]
Researchers are checking in this summer at 72 baited hair-snagging stations located across 5,000 square kilometers of remote temperate rain forest in Heiltsuk Traditional Territory, British Columbia...
The Sciences
Getting the Grizzly Story: What It's Like to Report in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
Editor's note: This post is part of a four-part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American , reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia...
The Sciences
Getting the Grizzly Story: What Its Like to Report in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
Editor's note: This post is part of a four-part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American , reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia...
Environment
Upstream Battle: What Is Killing Off the Fraser River's Sockeye Salmon? [Slide Show]
A recent study suggests a mystery pathogen acting in concert with human-induced stressors may be the culprits
Environment
Is salmon farming bad for the oceans?
We are as close to the salmon cages as we can get, telephoto lenses out, video rolling. From our vantage point, fisherman Reid Brown's 45-foot boat the Rebecca and Shelley, we don't see any salmon but the seabirds clamoring around the raised salmon cages are excited about something here in Passamaquoddy Bay on the Bay of Fundy...
The Sciences
Salmon farms in the Bay of Fundy worry fishermen
Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet, led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and film some of North America's most pressing water-use and management stories...
The Sciences
What is stormwater runoff, and why does it matter?
Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet , led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and film some of North America's most pressing water-use and management stories...
Environment
Electroshocking for fish at the Kingston Coal-Ash Spill Site
Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet , led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and film some of North America's most pressing water-use and management stories...
Environment
A visit with people affected by the largest industrial spill in American history
Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet , led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and film some of North America's most pressing water-use and management stories...
Environment
On eve of EPA hearings, scientists sample lake for coal-ash toxins
Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet, led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and film some of North America's most pressing water-use and management stories...
The Sciences
Dogged Research: The Top 10 Canines of Science [Slide Show]
Dogs have played heroic roles throughout the history of modern science in experiments that weren't always humane
Environment
The Cyber Sea: World's Largest Internet Undersea Science Station Boots Up [Slide Show]
NEPTUNE Canada, the world's largest regional cabled undersea network, promises to usher in a new era of ocean science when it goes online December 8*
Environment
Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears [Slide Show]
Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of decreases in a principal food source: salmon
