1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (183+ words) the Orcasonian. com News Brief | Eastern North Pacific malnourished gray whales in "serious trouble" ||| FROM INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ||| From San Francisco Bay to the Oregon coast to Washington"s Puget Sound, the die-off has occurred all along the gray whale…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (351+ words) ||| FROM LINWOOD LAUGHY ||| Cracks in the four lower Snake River dams? Not literally, but metaphorically weakening and widening. Over the past five years, according to Army Corps of Engineers" data, these dams combined generated an average of just 669 Megawatts (MW)…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (126+ words) Wednesday, May 20, 6 p. m. ,Orcas Island Public Library ||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ||| Harvell will also discuss local examples from her new book, The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life, which explores the astonishing…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (133+ words) the Orcasonian. com News Brief | A water doom loop is coming ||| FROM NEW YORK TIMES ||| Ecologists warn that in just 25 years, more than 70 percent of the Southwestern needle leaf evergreen forests, which include ponderosa pines, may be replaced by grass…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (45+ words) T23s in Haro Strait Encounter #30 " Bigg's Killer Whales the Orcasonian. com Encounter #30 " Bigg's T23s in Haro Strait ||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Staff: Dave Ellifrit, Michael Weiss Pods: Bigg's killer whales IDs Encountered: T23, T23 D, T23 D3, T23 D4, T23 D5, and T23 D6...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (349+ words) the Orcasonian. com Indian Island stewardship season needs you ||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| Community stewardship of Indian Island is 18 years old and still growing! This one-acre preserve a few hundred feet from Main Street is a unique part of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (104+ words) ||| FROM NEW YORK TIMES ||| A climate monster is growing right now in the Pacific Ocean, perhaps the most fearsome El Ni'o since before scientists even began modeling them. The El Ni'o building right now, and expected to crest around the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (82+ words) the Orcasonian. com ||| FROM KOMO-TV SEATTLE ||| NOAA Fisheries has just announced up to $99 million for conservation and recovery projects in the West Coast states and Alaska. Much of the nearly $100 million is aimed at restoring habitat that is either blocked…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (287+ words) the Orcasonian. com Rogue AI agent goes haywire, deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds ||| FROM YOU TUBE ||| About the Author: News Source I'd like to add some context from a technical perspective to this. The AI model did indeed delete…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (151+ words) Lessons from five years of habitat restoration at Mount Grant'and what's next ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Looking ahead, we will share how this collaborative model is expanding into riparian and wetland restoration across the islands, supported by new funding…...