By APRIL ERHLICH/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon has a new draft map illustrating which areas of the state are most susceptible to wildfires. Oregon State University and the Oregon Department […]
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Work begins this week on final construction phase of first U.S. wave energy test site north of Waldport
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Building the nation’s first wave-energy testing facility just off the central Oregon coast has been a project decades in the making. Now, engineers, researchers and ocean-wave […]
A Whale of a Story: Necropsy of young humpback helps reveal health of species and the ocean
By MICHAEL MILSTEIN/NOAA Public Affairs This is the story of a necropsy and the clues it revealed, one by one, about what ended the life of a young humpback […]
July 3-4 fireworks may be fun, but the July 5 hangover leaves biggest beach headache of year
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews The spectacle of bombs bursting in air is a staple of Fourth of July fireworks celebrations across the country, and this year will be no exception. […]
Yaquina Head likely the new nesting home of tufted puffins for first time in decades
By KOIN-TV A pair of tufted puffins are likely nesting near Yaquina Head on the north edge of Newport for the first time since the late 1990s and birders […]
Coastal tide pools offer a constellation of ecosystems and animals that reveal themselves at lowest tides
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS — In a galaxy not so far away a colorful constellation of stars revolves in an unforgiving world of extreme conditions where creatures survive by […]
NOAA reports declining trend in the number of entangled whales off Oregon and West Coast
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews After spiking to record numbers a decade ago, the reported instances of whales along the West Coast getting tangled in commercial and recreational fishing gear is […]
Warming ocean and 2015 heat wave harmed marine life on Oregon’s capes which are now struggling to recover
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Marine plants and animals on the Pacific Coast have been hit by an epidemic and devastating heat wave over the past decade, and […]
Amendment to 30-year-old Northwest Forest Plan could bring changes to 630,000-acre Siuslaw National Forest
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Tumbling down from the highest mountain in the Coast Range to the edge of the Pacific Ocean is the Siuslaw National Forest – a verdant landscape […]
Pacific coast gray whales have gotten 13% shorter in the past 20-30 years, Oregon State study finds
By MOLLY ROSBACH/OSU News Service Gray whales that spend their summers feeding in the shallow waters off the Pacific Northwest coast have undergone a significant decline in body length […]