The Nisqually Department of Natural Resources monitors local zooplankton populations to understand the food webs supporting Puget Sound salmon. This means Moore is on the water every two weeks, in ...

Life on the edge of Puget Sound is filled with natural wonder—from misty mornings that lift the Olympic Mountains into the ...

Scenic Train Journeys Across America invites rail-lovers to hop aboard routes from Alaska’s tundra to North Carolina’s gorges ...

Scientists have been surveying the salmon stream and the river it flows into, exploring the extent of a fuel spill.

PILCHUCK RIVER, Snohomish County — With a thunderous roar, the Chinook helicopter emerged above the treetops. Four uprooted ...

Efforts to save the Northwest’s endangered orcas are not working on either side of the U.S.-Canada border, according to an international panel of scientists.

The Chinook salmon that they mostly rely on, their population is crashing because of habitat destruction," said Roberts, the Puget Sound program director for Washington Conservation Action.

Indeed, when the classic Pink Floyd line-up reunited in London at Live 8 in 2005, Waters and Gilmour made sure that the Hyde Park audience were in no doubt of Wish You Were Here ’s subject matter as ...

Puget Sound orca pod threatened by salmon decline The orcas lurking beneath the surface of Washington state's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent, imposing and endangered species.

The Chinook salmon that they mostly rely on, their population is crashing because of habitat destruction," said Roberts, the Puget Sound program director for Washington Conservation Action.

Lurking beneath the surface of Washington's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent and endangered species: orca whales. Unique to these waters and once thriving, there are now believed ...