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| A bird鈥檚 eye-view on dwindling numbers | The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. 鈥淪coters,鈥 Sherman Anderson said. 鈥淭hree of them. At 11 o鈥檆lock. Look like surfs.鈥 鈥淢arbled murrelets,鈥 he added seconds later. 鈥淚 see two.鈥 Inside the boat鈥檚鈥 |
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| Was Six-Million-Year-Old Turd Auctioned for $10,000 a Faux Poo? | This past Saturday, a private collector paid $10,370 at auction for what was touted as a six-million-year-old turd. Billed in the auction house catalog as fossil feces measuring "an eye-watering 40 inches in length" and believed to be "possibly the longest example of coprolite鈥 |
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| The Great Giant Flea Hunt | In the Pacific Northwest, we live among behemoths 鈥 snowcapped volcanoes, towering trees, great splashing salmon and lattes as big as a child鈥檚 head. Yet one of the region鈥檚 undeniably superlative titans has slipped beneath everyone鈥檚 radar. |
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| The Great Giant Flea Hunt | In the Pacific north-west, we live among behemoths - snowcapped volcanoes, towering trees, great splashing salmon and lattes as big as a child's head. Yet one of the region's undeniably superlative titans has slipped beneath everyone's radar. The land of Bigfoot and鈥 |
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| Bellingham's Alley District gets an artful addition | A photographer tucked behind his accordion-like bellows camera is the latest mural to liven buildings that run along North State Street. |
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| Scientists Look for Causes of Baffling Die-Off of Sea Stars | Ben Miner picks his way over slick cobble on the shore of Bellingham Bay, in northwestern Washington. He has brought me to his study site here to show me something that has become increasingly rare on the west coast of North America: a healthy community of sea stars. He stops now and鈥 |
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| California Expected to Set Water Restrictions | In an attempt to help curb the impact of a three-year drought, California is likely to soon issue a first-time mandatory water restriction. |
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| Shannon Point Marine Center gets new director | Shannon Point Marine Center鈥檚 new director has officially joined the team of researchers tucked away on a 78-acre forested campus with a 3,000-foot stretch of undisturbed shoreline. |
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| Fighting the stereotype: female students start Women in Physics club | A group of physics majors at Western recently formed a club oriented toward a longtime minority in their field: women. |
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| From Window magazine: 'Oceans in Peril' |