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The court filing comes in response to the Trump administration cancelling an agreement with states and tribes.

If you’ve tried to boat or fish on the lower Yakima River lately, you might have noticed matted weeds clogging the waterway. Now, work is underway to get it under control.

Scientists have developed a new way to study really small fish. They’ve designed a tag that’s about the size of a grain of rice.

For years, U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse has argued the Lower Snake River dams make up an important energy source for the Northwest and that they can coexist with salmon. Now, he’s introduced a bill on the issue.

EcoFlight flies small groups in prop planes, advocating for the environment from the sky. The nonprofit, based in Aspen, Colorado, operates throughout the western United States.

A grey sky hangs over the Snake River on a dreary August Saturday. Dozens of people in kayaks, canoes and on paddle boards have been paddling for an hour…

Using satellite remote sensing to measure water temperature has been heavily underutilized, said Faisal Hossain,  a professor at the University of…

For decades, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has been working with farmers and states to bring spring Chinook salmon back to the Walla Walla Basin. Their efforts are finally paying off.

Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.This story comes to you from Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.

Biologists say removing a 550-foot causeway in Richland would be a big help for struggling salmon in the Yakima River.