Environment - Page 4

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews What does renewable energy look like? Over 250 school students showed off their best guesses in team projects Tuesday at the Oregon Coast Renewable Energy Challenge. Staged annually for over a decade at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, the challenge drew 82 teams from grades three through 12, representing schools from all along the

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Pacific salmon, long an economic and cultural mainstay of life along the Oregon coast, are facing significant competition from an increasingly popular fish that is flourishing as ocean temperatures rise. That’s a prime takeaway from new research showing that juvenile sablefish, sometimes known as black cod, are expanding their range into near-shore areas traditionally dominated by

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The U.S. Forest Service has scheduled a series of public meetings across Oregon, Washington and northern California – including one in Corvallis — to discuss proposed amendments to the Northwest Forest Plan. Amendments to 30-year-old plan could bring changes to the 630,000-acre Siuslaw National Forest that stretches along the central Oregon coast. For years the coastal

By APRIL ERHLICH/Oregon Public Broadcasting Two sea turtles washed up along Oregon’s beaches in the final days of 2024 due to hypothermic shock, bringing the number of sea turtles that appeared on the state’s shores last year to 17. That’s the highest number of sea turtle strandings the state has seen in any given year, and twice what the