Tagged: Environment and Planning

Officials have launched an investigation into the death of a young female orca from a pod of the endangered marine mammals in Puget Sound. The orca washed up near Washington’s Long Beach in February. The cause of her death is controversial.

An international research panel recommends cutting in half the global harvest of small, schooling fish like sardines, anchovy and herring.

A year after the devastating earthquake in Japan, up to 100,000 tons of tsunami generated debris is posing an urgent threat to coastal economies in the western U.S. That’s according to Senators Maria Cantwell and Mark Begich, who have written a letter to President Barack Obama, asking that emergency research funds from the National Science Foundation be mobilized to help scientists hone in on what needs to be done to prepare for the arrival of the debris.

Wolf hunting ends Saturday in most of Idaho. Hunters have bagged 372 animals since the season began in August, according to the latest count. Idaho Fish and Game officials are pleased, while wolf advocates find the high total worrisome.

Environmentalists and one of Oregon's public sector unions are challenging the recent approval of new water permits in Cascade Locks. As Rob Manning reports, the controversy surrounds a proposal to bottle water in the Columbia Gorge.