Category Archive: Biodiversity

May 07

Bacterial Disease Threatens Fish Throughout the Great Lakes

—Eric Freedman, Great Lakes Echo* A bacterial disease in both captively raised and wild fish is imperiling popular salmon species in the Great Lakes Basin, a new study shows. The findings are based on testing lake, brook, brown and rainbow trout and Coho, Atlantic, chinook and steelhead salmon from the Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and …

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Permanent link to this article: http://www.currentcast.org/creature-features/bacteria-threatens-fish/

Dec 31

Migrating Birds Miss the Water

California’s drought has dried up wetlands, putting migratory birds at risk. Transcript of the Audio Podcast: California’s drought takes a toll on migrating birds… on this CurrentCast. Each winter, the skies over California’s Central Valley fill with birds. Frisk: “Northern pintail, mallards, gadwall, pacific whitefront geese, Ross’s geese, snow geese. Also sandhill cranes and tundra …

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Permanent link to this article: http://www.currentcast.org/water-and-climate-change/migrating-birds-miss-the-water/

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