For those of you that are not up on the hot-button issues in Washington and the Pacific Northwest:
Coal exports: Craig Welch at the Seattle Times wrote a good summary on coal export plans in Washington. This is shaping up to be the biggest environmental issue in Washington, and presents many interesting legal
The latest from the group of researchers studying ocean acidification is out–Craig Welch wrote a good article for the Seattle Times on this subject the other day. I’ve previously discussed work done in Hood Canal by this same group of researchers, but this current paper is the first work to directly link oyster
I just finished reading an article published in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science by Richard Feely from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory here in Seattle and his co-authors from the University of Washington and the Washington Department of Ecology. These researchers sampled waters in Puget Sound on two cruises in February and August 2008, and