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In the fall, when rain cascades down from thick gray skies, pooling over streets and surging down storm drains, my mind drifts to the fish. It is during this time that coho salmon are returning from ...

(Reuters) - A U.S. agency seeking to restore habitat for endangered fish gave final approval on Thursday to decommission four dams straddling the California-Oregon border, the largest dam removal ...

To the editor — We have come to realize that the biggest obstacles to salmon recovery are not dams, but the reservoirs behind them. Salmon evolved being swept to the ocean by spring flood waters, ...

REDDING - Over the past year, CBS New Bay Area has been showing viewers California's effort to save the winter run chinook salmon - a fish that has almost been lost to dammed rivers and warming waters ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Tony Schick, was originally published by OPB, with ...

Specially designed gardens could reduce the amount of a toxic chemical associated with tires entering our waterways by more than 90 per cent, new research shows. Specially designed gardens could ...

A federal district court has ordered more water to be released from hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, as a way to protect endangered salmon. The action is expected to increase electrical rates ...

California must adopt new water diversion rules to restore Sacramento and Central Valley salmon runs, protect the Bay-Delta and save coastal fishing jobs. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file Today, ...

Build a floating vacuum the size of a football field with enough pumps to suck up a small river. Capture tiny young salmon in the vacuum’s mouth and flush them into massive storage tanks. Then load ...