Next time you hear hooting and it sounds like “Who’s coming for dinner,” take a look in your garden or backyard to determine ...

The Audubon Mural Project Lands in the Pacific Northwest On Washington's Vashon Island, the community has embraced a public art initiative to inspire conservation of local climate-threatened species.

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and voles have experienced changes to their skulls in response to urban ...

President Trump withdrew from a landmark federal plan to help bring back salmon in the Pacific Northwest.

Introduction Tropical islands of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA), the Indo-Pacific, and the Caribbean and Atlantic have had complex geological pasts that have affected their species distribution ...

The Oregon Zoo has welcomed a group of 25 Pacific lamprey, in effort to restore the population of one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest species.

The Oregon Zoo says it welcomed 25 Pacific lamprey last week. The eerie-looking eels are part of a larger effort to restore their population to other parts in the state.

Pacific Northwest Readers respond: Don’t drop preschool tax Published: Jun. 26, 2025, 6:00 a.m.

Scientists recently found an example of evolution in real time, tucked away in the collection drawers of the Field Museum in Chicago. By comparing the skulls of chipmunks and voles from the ...

The researchers say voles with smaller ear bones and chipmunks with smaller teeth are proof of how "profoundly" humans affect the environment and make the world harder for other species to live in.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS manages the Pacific sardine fishery in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the Pacific coast ( i.e., off the U.S. West Coast states of California, Oregon, and ...