California’s salmon fishery reopens this spring after three years of devastating closures — and the forecast is the strongest in years. But the comeback story isn’t about wet winters or dam removals. It’s about what happened on April 11, 2023, when Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano blasted iron-rich ash across the North Pacific, replenishing vital dust to the ocean pastures where salmon put on 95 percent of their body weight. From Alaska’s 119 million pink salmon to California’s record jack returns, the 2023 ocean-entry cohorts are coming home strong everywhere. The volcano told us what the medicine is. The question is whether we’ll act before the next silent years return.
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In an unimaginable tragedy for third year in a row, seabirds are washing up dead along the coastline in Alaska. This isn’t just one carnary…
Do you remember that lesson about the birds and the bees? You know the ever so important one your mother taught you, the one about…
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I’ve been reporting on the appalling die off of seabirds and shorebirds for years. Now in the Journal Nature the scope of the apocalypse is…
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Tens of thousands, more likely hundreds of thousands, of Alaskan seabirds have starved and are starving to death again this winter, as their sustaining ocean…
Seagull populations have been crashing on the West Coast of North America according to a new report that say’s they are starving to death as…
Data from satellites have confirmed that ocean pastures west of California have suffered the worst collapse ever measured, 35% of pasture productivity was lost in…
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This is the first of what we hope will be a long series of reports from our resident Mermaids. Finally there are reports surfacing that…
How to grow more whales that go poop in the night and save the world from climate change. Whale poop seems to be all the…
But this year neither his beak nor belly hold anything. California brown pelicans’ breeding numbers are in drastic decline this year, according to an annual…
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In a new paper in the science journal PNAS the long known role of seabirds is reported anew. Seabirds flock to plankton blooms and in…