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California Creek Team OC Environment Ocean Orange County Surf TERRAIN Water Quality

When herbicide runoff from Orange County landscaping washed into the surf, Creek Team OC put meters in the water — and made the results public.

Climate Environment Forest Indigenous Recovery TERRAIN Wildfire

Black Summer burned 46 million acres and forced ecologists to rewrite everything they thought they knew about how forests recover.

Alaska Environment Indigenous Pacific Northwest Salmon TERRAIN

Every autumn, Pacific chinook fight their way home against the current. What happens when the rivers stop waiting for them?

California Climate Conservation Japan Kelp Norway Ocean Tasmania TERRAIN

From California to Tasmania, kelp forests are vanishing at alarming speed. In Norway and Japan, scientists are racing to bring them back.

Ecology Forests LLRULE Pacific Northwest Reforestation TERRAIN

Follow a restoration crew into the Cascade foothills as they hand-plant 2,000 native conifers — one hole, one tree, one acre at a time.

J.T. Galbraith