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Environment

Environment

Environment & Planning

  • A drone video still of orca J36 carrying her dead baby on September 12, 2025.
    Courtesy: SeaDoc Society, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Center for Whale Research, and SR3
    An endangered orca was spotted Friday carrying a dead newborn on her nose, umbilical cord still attached, between Orcas Island and Cypress Island in Washington state.
  • Birds flying into a chimney
    Provided by Tracy Maxwell, UVAS.
    A dire mystery has the Umpqua Valley Audubon Society asking the public for help: vast numbers of the migratory birds, Vaux’s Swifts, have disappeared. The hanging questions are: Why? And where have the swifts gone?