marine wildlife

A people-powered whale alert app has been helping reduce the risk of vessel strikes on whales for more than a decade. Now, an AI powered thermal camera is taking the monitoring to the next level.

Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus.

People around the Salish Sea are seeing weird things in the water: big, exotic fish like Bluefin Tuna on Orcas Island and in Tacoma, six-foot-long Sunfish. These are species that normally live in warmer waters south of here.

Even as human impacts cause increasing numbers of animal strandings along beaches in Washington and Oregon, there has been a gap in critical care for…