Articles for tag: AquaticEcosystem, MarineWildlife, Oregon, Salmon, SeaLions

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Oregon Sea Lions vs. Salmon

Suhail Ahmed

  On a gray spring morning at Willamette Falls, the spectacle looks almost cinematic: sleek sea lions patrolling the churn while muscle upstream toward the ladder. The drama is real, and so are the stakes – some runs in the Pacific Northwest still teeter after decades of habitat loss, warming rivers, and dams. Scientists and ...

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Washington’s Salmon Face a Warming Crisis

Suhail Ahmed

  On summer afternoons across Washington, rivers that once ran cold enough to sting your fingers now feel like bathwater, and salmon are paying the price. The mystery is not whether heat harms fish – we know it does – but how rising river temperatures are quietly rearranging the timing, the routes, and the very ...