Rising water temperatures in the Columbia River Basin are raising questions about whether fishery managers must take new steps to save the imperiled fish. A persistent heat wave gripping parts of ...

There has been a "disappointing" drop in the number of salmon migrating upstream to spawn in the North West, according to the Ribble Rivers Trust. The Clitheroe-based charity said since 2012 the ...

In the Northwest, salmon are struggling to make the seasonal migration upstream to their spawning grounds after a recent heat wave warmed up water temperatures. In fact, the water is so hot, ...

LAKE FOREST PARK — Ron Ricker remembers hauling 5-gallon buckets full of small smooth stones — the right size for spawning salmon. It was 1961, and he was preparing to replace gas pumps over a stream ...

An environmental group has filed a lawsuit claiming a privately owned Oregon dam unlawfully harms protected fish. The lawsuit comes roughly a year after the nonprofit reached a settlement in a similar ...

In The Americas, Tom Hanks takes us on an epic 10-part adventure through the natural world. The series covers the world’s largest supercontinent, stretching from the southern tip of Chile to the ...

Just a month after completing work to remove four dams on the Klamath River, fish and wildlife officials in California and Oregon said they have already spotted a salmon upstream of the locations ...

In addition to human-made dams, which disrupt migration routes and the salmon spawning cycle, salmon face a host of ...

YREKA, Calif. — One of the first banners used by a coalition of tribes, environmentalists and other allies in a 20-year struggle to remove four dams from the Klamath River along the California-Oregon ...

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MONROE — Over a thousand salmon waited in the shadow of a beaver dam over Woods Creek on Monday morning. Many had been stationed there for several days. The salmon — a mix of pink, coho and endangered ...

(CN) — A portion of a dam on the Puyallup River in Washington, operated by the utility company Electron Hydro, must be removed because it harms fish protected by the Endangered Species Act, a federal ...