Global mining giant Anglo-American and its Canadian partner, Northern Dynasty, want to dig one of the world’s largest open-pit mines – up to three miles wide and thousands of feet deep – in the near-pristine watershed of Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. Learn more about this proposal and the controversy surrounding it; SAFS‘ Thomas Quinn is quoted. 

Did you get a chance to attend Conservation Remix this year? Would you like to check out — or revisit — the provocative talks that the bevvy of awesome speakers delivered? Well, okay then — Conservation Remix video series can be found here. Enjoy! 

With overfishing, habitat loss, pollution, the proliferation of dams, and now climate change, the salmon that are a crucial part of so many of the Pacific Northwest’s indigenous peoples’ cultures are in severe decline. Learn about the work of the Tribes to counteract a future with no fish; Alan Hamlet and the Climate Impacts Group are mentioned. Also check out this video showing the retreat of the South Cascade Glacier in Washingon, a “water tower” providing summer habitat for salmon: 

Although we may count ourselves lucky that we are not experiencing the heat waves and drought that more than half of the country are under, some may wonder if Seattleites will have an un-summer akin to 2011. According to one data set, in fact we’ve had fewer summer hours than this time last year. Atmospheric Sciences‘ data are referenced; read more here!