by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Carly Cassella (@carlycassella) introduces us to an ongoing research project aiming to solve the mystery of an unknown species of oyster-parasitizing mud worm that is showing up in Northwest oyster beds. Where did these worms come from, and what...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 2, 2018 | ScienceWire
ICYMI: Lisa Stiffler won a Society of Professional Journalists award for her story in InvestigateWest on how climate change is affecting the Puget Sound and our region’s oyster industry. If you want to read, revisit, and share, here’s the piece, with...
by Matt Vivion | Dec 11, 2013 | Past Events
Eric Swenson, communications and outreach director for the Global Ocean Health Program, discussed media coverage of ocean acidification with NSWA members and guests on Dec. 11 at University House. The program opened with a short scientific explanation of...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2013 | ScienceWire
A little lemon is nice with oysters, but Maria Dolan, writing for Slate, says that’s as close as acid should get to the popular shellfish. Reporting from local and national experts, Maria finds that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide is not just changing the...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
We thought we’d heard the last of acid rain, but a story by Eric Scigliano at OnEarth.org is a reminder of that environmental plague of the 1970s. Fossil fuel consumption increases CO2 in the atmosphere, causing global climate change. But it also forces CO2 into our...
