Dams
NORTH BONNEVILLE, Wash. - The numbers of salmon and steelhead heading up the Columbia River are well above average, including a record run of sockeye, biologists say.
BOISE, Idaho - Federal regulators are concerned that a dam built by Monsanto Co.
SPOKANE, Wash. - The latest effort to save North America's largest freshwater fish from extinction begins this week when water is spilled over Montana's Libby Dam to encourage the ancient fish to spawn for the first time in more than three decades.
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Starvation Island in northern Zimbabwe is living up to its name for the first time in 50 years as rising lake waters have submerged grazing land for hundreds of animals, conservationists say.
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Obama administration has made no major changes to a plan to protect endangered wild salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin, dismaying salmon advocates who say they expected more.
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- 'Avatar' director lauds ruling on Brazilian dam
- Cameron: 'Victory' in Brazil halting dam
- Brazil judge halts bidding for huge Amazon dam
- Cameron: Amazon dam dispute a real-life 'Avatar'
- Feds want to barge salmon past Snake River dams
- Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon
- Brazil: Cost of Amazon dam jumps $2B
- Oregon's Klamath Basin deal helps farmers and fish
- N. America's biggest fish slips toward extinction
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