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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
For the last decade, chinook salmon, commonly known in Alaska as “king salmon,” has been in decline, a trend that has stumped researchers and biologists across the state as to what is causing the salmon’s low returns.
Thousands of vessels, from enormous cargo ships to much smaller fishing boats, annually traverse the waters around Alaska.
After a dry summer and despite a few recent rainy days, Connecticut is experiencing an increasingly dry autumn, with areas of the state ranging from abnormally dry to extreme drought conditions.
With demand for lentils growing globally and climate change driving temperatures higher, a University of Saskatchewan (USask)-led international research team has developed a model for predicting which varieties of the pulse crop are most likely to thrive in new production environments
Neurons are cells in your brain. Shaped like little stars, they flicker and fire off signals to each other.
The final frontier is getting messy. Debris -- including defunct satellites, abandoned fuel tanks, tools dropped by astronauts and fragments from satellite collisions.
