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Canada: Climate Change Could Slash Natives’ Fish Catches
Posted by KUOW: None Given on January 15th, 2016
KUOW: Northwest coastal tribes have counted on salmon and herring for thousands of years to fill their nets and fuel their cultures. That could change in just a few decades as warmer waters drive fish north, according to a study out this week from the University of British Columbia.
Researchers looked at 98 species that native, or First Nations, communities catch on the B.C. coast.
"What we find is that most of the species will have a decrease in potential catch and abundance by 2050," said UBC professor...
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What climate change means for a land of glaciers
Posted by KUOW: None Given on November 10th, 2014
KUOW: Jon Riedel’s white hair and light blue eyes match the icy tint of the landscape he’s studied for more than 30 years.
He moved to Washington soon after finishing his PhD at the University of Wisconsin because he says the glaciers of the Northwest are still writing the landscape, still carving out curves and valleys.
Outside of Alaska, there is no better place in the U.S. to study glaciers than Washington. The Cascade Range has the perfect elevation and weather patterns to ensure that wet, heavy...
Toxic algal blooms and warming waters: The climate connection
Posted by KUOW: None Given on October 5th, 2013
KUOW: A photograph displayed in Jacki and John Williford`s home commemorates a camping trip that would go down in family history.
The most memorable event from that outing in 2011 involved the mussels John and his two children collected from a dock near Sequim Bay State Park on Washington`s Olympic Peninsula. The family took them back to their campsite and steamed them in white wine with garlic and oregano.
“It was really good. Like the best mussels in the whole wide world,” remembers their son Jaycee,...