Lynda V. Mapes
Environmental Reporter at Seattle Times
Seattle Times environment reporter, author of Orca Shared Waters Shared Home, Bullard Fellow Harvard University, Knight Fellow in Science Journalism, MIT
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6 days ago |
seattletimes.com | Lynda V. Mapes
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation.
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3 weeks ago |
yesmagazine.org | Lynda V. Mapes
Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this trucker was hauling logs down the mountain outside the remote logging outpost of Woss, British Columbia, cut from trees so large the tractor trailer could carry only a few. “It’s so sad. I just feel heartbreak, like a piece of me just went down the mountain,” said Ryan, whose traditional name is Sm’hayetsk, as the logging truck roared past her. “The ancestors are there.
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3 weeks ago |
chronline.com | Lynda V. Mapes
Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice. Boom-and-bust cycles of gray whale populations are normal. But for the first time since the Eastern North Pacific population has been monitored over the past five decades, scientists are seeing not a cycle of loss and recovery, but continued decline in the population by more than 40% over the past 10 years.
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3 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Lynda V. Mapes
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation. Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.
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3 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Lynda V. Mapes
Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from Lynda V. Mapes’ book, “The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests” ($29.95 hardcover), which will be published April 22 by the University of Washington Press. The book is a call to rethink our relationship with forests. I’VE ALWAYS BEEN drawn to these ancient forests.
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Southern resident orcas hurtling toward extinction, new study finds https://t.co/TBRFEcZo4o via @seattletimes
Thousands of Chinook wasted as bycatch in B.C. fishery, new report finds https://t.co/scjWQvZT0v via @seattletimes
Environment reporter Lynda Mapes to lead talk about orcas and salmon. Register now. https://t.co/CpVb75QKoy via @seattletimes