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The key defence against sea lice that’s used by B.C. salmon farm companies is failing, according to new data

SEATTLE —Researchers made a surprising discovery while tracking Chinook salmon in both the foraging areas of endangered southern resident orcas and the growing, healthy population of the northern resident orcas in B.C.

Springer, the orca orphan who took a shining to people and their boats and captured the hearts of people around the globe nearly two decades ago, is now a mother of two and is expecting another . . .

The popular theory that the endangered southern resident killer whales are suffering from a lack of chinook salmon in the Salish Sea may not hold water. Scientists at the University of British . . .

A new study appears to debunk the prevailing hypothesis that endangered southern resident killer whales are in decline due to plummeting chinook salmon stocks in the Salish Sea during the summer months.

The widespread belief endangered killer whales are starving to death due to a lack of chinook salmon in southern B.C. waters in the summer may be incorrect, a new study suggests.

Sharing space with whales. Hanging with sharks. Hugs from a manatee. These encounters with marine creatures provide the biggest thrills in the seven seas

How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature As BC’s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series. Christopher Pollon covers business, environment and the politics of natural resources. He’s the author of The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam. He tweets @C_Pollon. SHARES Pacific white-sided dolphins cruise Knight Inlet. The fjord that receives the melting wa...

The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29. The array of high-tech tools included aerial drones, electronic fish finders and data loggers equipped with satellite telemetry, a gyroscope, hydrophone and an underwater camera. Attached to the killer whales with suction cups, these devices allowed the scientists to record what the whales see and hear, as well as their movements in the water, and their diving and hunting behaviour. The vi...

A disease detective hopes to discover why British Columbia’s wild salmon continue to decline. By Ann Thomas MD Against the backdrop of the Discovery Islands, tucked in the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and British Columbia’s mainland, the biologists spotted a school of salmon. They maneuvered their boat to encircle the fish with a net and pulled them aboard. But something was wrong. Some fish swam strangely at the surface and rolled over. As the researchers performed quick gill bi...