Until recently, Oregon's southernmost glacier was on Mt. Thielsen, an extinct volcano mountain in the Cascade Range, east of Diamond Lake in Douglas County. But sometime over the past half decade, Lathrop Glacier disappeared. Oregon Glaciers Institute President Anders Carlson...
COOS BAY, Ore. - Researchers have a modest proposal: Help protect Dungeness crabs along the Oregon Coast - by eating the invasive European green crabs that compete with the native crabs for resources. According to the State of Oregon: Green...
On an island within sight of Victoria, British Columbia is a small University of Washington field station where scientists are working to figure out how to grow an endangered species of sea star.
SEATTLE – Though murres look like skinny penguins, these resilient birds can dive more than two football fields below the ocean’s surface in search of prey. So, when nearly one million of them washed ashore from California to Alaska in...
SEATTLE -- It was a strange and surreal sight: Thousands of moon jellyfish swimming in Puget Sound. And not just in one spot -- we've received photos of jellyfish swarms in Vashon Island's Quartermaster Harbor and off Orcas Island. And...
SEATTLE -- 2019's version of El Niño officially died last month, and now forecasters say the odds of it potentially coming back for this fall and/or winter are even less than they were then. The Climate Prediction Centernow gives a...
SEATTLE -- "The Blob" is back as a sequel... Those of you who were around here in the winter of 2014-15 likely remember hearing the term bandied about quite frequently.
