The Environmental Protection Agency moved to block the Pebble Mine in Alaska on Tuesday, preventing mining waste discharges into the Bristol Bay watershed. It’s a decision the agency says will ...

Imagine a summer camp where you can watch grizzly bears catch salmon in streams, while learning about the migration and preparation of the fish hovering in the water at your feet. We started these ...

Brooke Hess, a science writer and professional kayaker, is preparing to travel over 1,000 miles across mountains and rivers for a three-month conservation campaign. The Grand Salmon Source to Sea ...

OREGON, USA — For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the ...

A giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks' (DNRP) Chinook Wind Mitigation Project in Tukwila stands as an example of how formerly developed land can be just not ...

Katie Kobayashi, UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology, with a steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from Scott Creek. Kobayashi's work shows how steelhead that migrate to the ...

In better times, droves of young winter-run Chinook salmon would travel 300 miles downstream from the Sacramento River, beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific. They would return as adults ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Scientists know what two dams did nearly a century ago to the Elwha River's legendary salmon runs. Now they get a historic chance to find out what they still don't know: Given a ...

The world's largest dam removal and restoration project currently underway on the Klamath River in Oregon and California will aid salmon populations that have been devastated by disease and other ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river ...