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An average home uses between 80 to 100 gallons of water a day.
BOISE, Idaho — A Northwest environmental group is offering a new reason to conserve water: it’s a way to save energy and shrink your carbon footprint. Conservation group Idaho Rivers United monitored 15 water providers in western Idaho to see how much energy they used. It’s the first research of its kind in the country — and it’s attracting attention.
Doling out water in the arid West is tough to do. There’s not much to be had, and everyone wants a fair share. What’s fair? It depends who you ask. One basin in central Washington has found a way for fish, farmers and families to have enough water. And its early success is drawing interest throughout the Northwest.
Former naval officer Ken Balcomb has been studying the endangered orcas of Puget Sound for over 30 years. In a way, they’re his children. When one of them washed up dead in February, Balcomb set out looking for answers. He thinks they lead to his former military branch. New: EarthFix on NPR: What Killed Orca?
A new climate-change study published Monday surveyed nearly 500 mammals in the western hemisphere. It found that on the whole, mammals that can move quickly to new territory and adapt to human encroachment have good odds of surviving a warming planet. Mammals that stay put may not stick around.
An estimated 5 billion hatchery fish are released into the Pacific Ocean each year. A collection of research released Monday raises concerns about how all those hatchery fish might be competing with wild salmon.
If you live in Central Washington, the Portland suburbs or Idaho's capital, then odds are what comes out of your sewage treatment plant will help grow crops -- thanks to the Northwest's concentration of cutting-edge recycling technology.
Hike through the Siskiyou Mountains, and you can find dozens of species of flowers that bloom nowhere else in the world. Many of these mountains are made of rock that was once on the sea floor. Weird, beautiful, and carnivorous plants have adapted to survive in the nutrient poor soil.
This week the EarthFix team talks derelict vessels, algae blooms, orcas and more.
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