A new study by OSU atmospheric scientist Karen Shell and others concluded that the Northern Hemisphere has lost much of its reflectivity over the last 30 years because of snow and sea ice decline.
The Dungeness crab reigns supreme in Oregon, but a group of scientists at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center is in the middle of an effort to save the future of the Alaska king crab.
The much-ballyhooed oceanic "garbage patch" isn't nearly as large as portrayed in the media, according to recent analysis - but plastic debris in the ocean is still an ongoing concern.
The Pacific Ocean off Oregon was warm through June, then turned cold and biologically productive - Jekyll-and-Hyde conditions that are making it difficult for biologists to gauge future salmon runs.
A lone western gray whale, from one of the world's most endangered populations, is surprising scientists with its movements. They are tracking it at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center.
Researchers from Russia and the United States, including OSU's Bruce Mate, are tracking a whale from one of the most endangered whale populations in the world - a western gray.
The first "Oregon Climate Assessment Report," by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at OSU, says the state faces future water shortages, more wildfire risk, and extreme weather.
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