| Climate change activists converge in Skamakowa |
Skamakowa, Wash. - Activists from across the region are gathering at the Wahkiakum County Fairgrounds in Skamakowa this week for the West Coast Convergence for Climate Action.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 Full Story >>> |
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| Pooh! Phew! Wow... |
Dairy cows could help corral greenhouse gases
Dairy cows are efficient converters of feed and water into high-quality milk, but a new project in California could demonstrate their power to save the planet from global warming.
Friday, December 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Who gets it? |
Inspired by Robert Redford and others, leaders from some American cities decide to act independently
There's good news on the climate-change political front. But instead of coming from the federal government, it's coming from city and state governments that have decided to take action now - and not wait on the Bush administration to get onboard.
Friday, December 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Two farmers embrace climate-friendly practices as an example for others to follow |
The story of two farmers who have made climate-friendly changes to their farming practices reveals that although climate change was not the main driver, it turned out to be an important part of the equation.
Friday, December 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Climate change: The world is in our hands |
They used to say people talk about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Not true anymore. The East Oregonian Publishing Group's 2006 three part-series on climate change has proved that.
Friday, December 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Teen's search for truth set against background of changing Arctic climate |
Perhaps it was the polar bear on the cover. After pandas, and a few humans, they are my favorite creatures.
Thursday, December 28, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| California adds muscle to ideas, and sets an example |
California has some of the nation's strictest environmental laws to protect air and water.
Thursday, December 28, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Effects on bird species bring climate change into focus |
Bird count shows some new species are appearing here
Like the canary in the coal mine, birds know when danger is near.
Thursday, December 28, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Northwest firms take the lead |
Nike isn't alone in its quest to reduce its environmental impact on the world and trying to find ways to deal with global warming.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| This car really is smart |
This "Smart Car" built by Mercedes-Benz sends out an eye-catching advertisement not only for Urban Body Laser but also for environmental consciousness.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Oregon's climate guru shrugs off criticism, focuses on science |
CORVALLIS - Heavy rain beat down on Strand Agricultural Hall on the Oregon State University campus as students emerged from the south entrance heading for their 3 o'clock classes.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Park Service benefits from expertise |
Kelly Redmond, George Taylor's predecessor as Oregon climatologist, is up to his ears in gathering data about climate change. One of the Western Regional Climate Center's clients is the National Park Service.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| California expert helps lead campaign to educate public |
Michael Anderson is among a legion of state climatologists across the nation who are waging the war on climate change.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Longtime Astoria-area scientist worries about how changing ocean currents affect fishing industry |
Jon Graves
Jon Graves is a guidance counselor at Clatsop Community College who lives in Astoria.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Northwest companies take the lead in battling greenhouse gases |
Operations adjust business for the climate
When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, Nike isn't in the same league as General Motors. But that hasn't stopped the footwear favorite from ridding its air soles of greenhouse gases.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| A tiny bit of the stratosphere holds key to greenhouse gas woes |
Man-caused emissions are a fraction of a fraction of Earth's atmosphere, and the atmosphere is just one of the drivers of the weather.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Researchers examine human breathing as a source of carbon dioxide |
Dr. Hollis Spitler, a scientist at Washington State University's Mount Vernon research center, above, explains a demonstration he's conducting to Skagit County organic grower Anne Schwartz.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| 'You need to try to demonstrate and educate and then regulate' |
Biodiesel advocate outlines a three-point strategy to encourage use of alternative fuels
Salem farmer John Miller practices sustainable agriculture in his nursery and vineyard.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Seaside teacher says predictions of changes are 'going through the roof' |
Michael Brown has taught science and technology for 22 years at Seaside High School, where he also directs the Coastal Studies and Technology Center.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Climate change fuels a desire for action |
Cold facts and second looks spark debate on century's burning issue
The cold hard facts from columns of arctic ice, buttressed by complex mathematical models computer-assisted researchers generate, show the Earth's climate is changing.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Idaho approaching carbon trading slowly |
BOISE, Idaho - Carbon trading, or capturing carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, in vegetation to keep it out of the atmosphere, may offer financial opportunities for farmers and ranchers in the future.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Carbon trades: An opportunity for agriculture? |
Mention climate change, and most people know vaguely about something related to it called carbon sequestration, or carbon trading.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Carbon market requires emissions caps to take off |
One way to manage global warming is to reduce or at least control the emission of carbon dioxide, one of the major greenhouse gases, by trapping it in vegetation or certain geological formations.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| In some circumstances, agriculture, forestry may benefit from warming |
MEDFORD - Conventional wisdom may have farmers and foresters worried over a warming climate. Platoons of scientists say growing conditions may get better, not worse in the Northern Hemisphere.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| What do you think? |
Today as our reporting team concludes the third part in this series, we invite readers to offer their comments on the significance of global climate change in their families' lives.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Climate change team |
This installment of the climate change series is produced by the East Oregonian Publishing Group, whose member newspapers include The Daily Astorian in Astoria, Ore., The East Oregonian in Pendleton, Ore., The Capital Press in Salem, Ore., (covering four states); the Blue Mountain Eagle in John Day, Ore., The Wallowa Chieftain in Enterprise, Ore., and the Chinook Observer in Long Beach, Wash.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Responsibility emerges as the key to reducing human impacts on climate |
SEATTLE - As climate change continues to take its toll on the environment and the economy, it will increasingly become a legal liability for companies that ignore the writing on the wall.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Other nations are well ahead of the United States in offering help |
Government is slow to perceive the need to help farmers adapt
You won't find a government program that says it'll help you adapt to global climate change.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Patten sets example for residents to become better stewards |
Kim Patten has defied conventional wisdom by basing his science career around a place - Southwest Washington's Willapa Bay - and the diverse people and other species who make their home there.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Forests encounter new pest problems in the age of global warming |
For 75 years, the mountain pine beetle has been a pest of concern for the Canadian Forest Service because of its ability to decimate lodgepole pine. Nothing, however, could have prepared Forest Service officials for what they now see.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Growers around the Northwest point to evidence of more pests |
Five years ago, University of California Davis entomologist Frank Zalom saw whitefly in strawberries in the Oxnard-Ventura area of Southern California for the first time.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Northwest naturalist and author Pyle warns of trouble ahead |
Robert Michael Pyle is an internationally known writer and biologist who has lived in Grays River, Wash., for 28 years.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| A SPECIAL REPORT: Sea birds, insects and other critters suffer amid changing climate |
The popular media have tried to portray just how global warming will affect humans.
From science fiction movies to television documentaries, we've seen computer-generated images of ocean shores devouring coastlines in California and New York as glacial melting causes oceans to rise.
And with more than six billion people on the planet, we may be one of the more populous mammal species.
Friday, September 08, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Patten sets example for residents to become 'better stewards' |
Kim Patten has defied conventional wisdom by basing his science career around a place - Willapa Bay - and the diverse people and other species who make their home there.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Snowpack holds the key to West Coast's comfort level |
A meager winter snowpack, heightened risk of spring floods and greater competition among farmers, city dwellers and fish - those are some of the predicted effects associated with climate change in the century ahead.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Glacier's movement tells a story |
The Nisqually Glacier is the sixth largest of the 25 named glaciers on Mount Rainier in Washington state.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Along with the drier landscape comes another problem: more weeds |
SPOKANE, Wash. - Bigger weeds. Weeds that go further up mountainsides. Weeds that take advantage, not only of warmer temperatures, but higher carbon dioxide levels that will accompany global climate change.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| 'Look at the evidence and be open-minded to both sides of the issue' |
Mike Patterson is a consulting ecologist who lives in Astoria. Working primarily with conservation groups, he specializes in inventory work: taking general or specific logs of specific species or groups of species.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Cranberry crop on the Peninsula may be vulnerable to climate change |
The Long Beach Peninsula's most colorful crop relies on water.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Oregon researcher was well ahead of the pack |
CORVALLIS - In the mid-1970s, while researching the distribution of two species of oak trees in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, U.S. Forest Service bioclimatologist Ron Neilson noticed changes in climate were altering the trees' distribution.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| A SPECIAL REPORT: Forests and crops struggle to beat the heat |
Rising temperatures spur Northwest growing pains
Global climate change is affecting everything that grows. In the first of this week's three-part series, the focus was on the impacts on salmon, oysters and other water critters.
Today the emphasis is on forests and crops of the Pacific Northwest.
With fishing, the forest products industry has driven the economy of the North Coast region. And, like salmon, the health of the forests already reflects the overall health of the region.
Scientists are worried that the region's forests are changing, while the warmer temperatures also increase the risk of catastrophic fires in the Northwest.
Thursday, September 07, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Why our newspaper group is doing this series |
Climate change is the biggest, most significant challenge of the 21st century. That is why the newspapers of the East Oregonian Publishing Co. began this occasional series in March.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Astoria teacher says the only response to climate change is 'good science' |
Lee Cain, 42, science teacher, Astoria High School
Background: 2-year degree in Fisheries and Wildlife technology, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, Wash.; worked three years in fisheries, mostly for state of Washington; working with salmon (five months) in Alaska; worked one summer with shellfish division; 1990: bachelor of science degree with emphasis on marine biology, Oregon State University; Conducted aquaculture research in Florida and Bahamas for 1 1/2 years; 1993: Teaching certification, Central Washington University.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Invasive species hurting lifestyles on the Long Beach Peninsula |
Invasive species are also playing apart in the changing Long Beach Peninsula.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Patten sets example for residents to become better stewards |
Kim Patten has defied conventional wisdom by basing his science career around a place - Southwest Washington's Willapa Bay - and the diverse people and other species who make their home there.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| 'It's like a freight train coming, and no one can stop it' |
Salmon are hardy - but can they survive warmer water?
It may be hard to believe that chinook salmon or steelhead could be bothered or hurt by a few degrees warmer water.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| A SPECIAL REPORT: The evidence is here |
North Coast scientists warn that warming trends are irrefutable
Barefoot, with a blue plastic bucket, Kathleen Sayce, ShoreBank Pacific scientist, strides out into the ocean at the Oysterville approach.
She runs the bucket through the waves several times and walks back with seawater from the incoming tide.
She pours five liters of water through a micron-screened tube, catching the screened water from the bottom in containers. A long thermometer floats in the remaining water in the bucket. "Looks like about 16 centigrade, about 70 degrees Fahrenheit," she says tilting it up to eye level.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Commentary: The lure of technology and how it bites our planet |
Technology has a way of leapfrogging over us and coming back to confront us as an enemy.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| What it all means for the Northwest in the next half-century |
What will climate change likely mean to the Northwest over the next 50 years?
Friday, March 31, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Whodunit? |
Consensus grows regarding what climate changes are caused by global warming
“It’s not a scientific debate,” Bill Pennell said of the human impact on global warming. “The fact we are doing something to climate systems is pretty well established.”
Friday, March 31, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Bank scientist points to important factors |
Kathleen Sayce, 53, is a bank scientist with ShoreBank Pacific in Ilwaco, Wash., and much in demand as a guide to the flora and fauna of Southwest Washington.
Friday, March 31, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Oregon state climate specialist critical of media coverage |
George Taylor is the state climatologist for Oregon, a faculty position at Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences in Corvallis.
Friday, March 31, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Northwest water supplies rely on storage, conservation |
Forest Service hydrologist Caty Clifton likes to cite this truism about the West and water: “It’s always too much or too little.”
Friday, March 31, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| It’s not how much water but when we need it |
Snowpacks may shrink in half by mid-century
Do the math. Snowmelt makes up 75 percent of all water in streams throughout the West. Global warming is expected to reduce snowpacks in the Northwest by 40 to 60 percent in the next 50 years. The challenge is clear, and formidable. “Population and economic growth already are placing severe pressure on water resources in the West,” said Bill Pennell, longtime director of the Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. “Climate change is one more very important factor that has to be taken into account when thinking about the future.”
Friday, March 31, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Maps reveal extent of worries for Bay Center, Oysterville |
Washington’s Pacific County covers 928 square miles, but by 2100, based on predictions of ocean level rise caused by global climate change, the county could lose 20 square miles to the ocean.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| ‘The fact we are doing something to climate systems is pretty well established’ |
Bill Pennell, 63, became manager of the North American Research for Tropospheric Ozone in June 2005 after 27 years as director of the Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Eastern Oregon was once a tropical forest |
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument exhibit shows how the Northwest has changed
Kimberly — It’s sometimes called the “John Day Tiger,” but it was more like a muscular bear than a modern mountain lion when it roamed the area 30 million years ago, looking for something to eat.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| ‘What you would see here would be a hell of a mess’ |
Long Beach leaders have no illusions about the severity of the threat if the water level rises
If climate change causes ocean levels to rise 3 feet or more, Pacific County is in deep trouble. “What you would see here would be a hell of a mess,” said County Commissioner Jon Kaino.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Rise in ocean levels threatens region with deep trouble |
Alderbrook among locales that would bear the brunt
As the earth warms, scientists predict that polar ice caps and glaciers will continue to melt, raising the sea level around the world. Although the amount may vary from place to place, an intergovernmental panel of scientists has predicted that by 2100, sea level will rise by between 4 inches and 35 inches.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Sophisticated technology helps Western states share information |
Around the West, SNOTEL (for SNOwpack TELemetry) uses meteor burst communications technology to collect and communicate weather data in near real time.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Farmer learns key questions to ask on today’s hot topic |
Global warming conference brings experts to Seattle to probe latest wisdom on impacts on Northwest
As one speaker after another took the microphone, John Woerner paid close attention to his future as a farmer.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Bananas growing in Oregon? |
You’d better believe it, Ellen Bishop tells her students
ENTERPRISE — When an issue understood only on the scale of centuries must be fit into pop-culture attention spans, what’s an educator to do?
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| ‘You see more and more evidence coming forth ...’ |
Michael Morrissey is a professor and the director at the Oregon State University Seafood Laboratory in Astoria.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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| Will fishing cool down as oceans heat up? |
North Coast fishers tackle consequences of climate changeFirst of three parts
Last summer, the northerly winds that blow down the Oregon Coast were two months late. The upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water usually churned by the winds didn't happen in May. There was no corresponding burst of microscopic plant growth, and so there was little food for plankton, for small fish, for bigger fish, for birds and marine mammals.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Full Story >>> |
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