In 2019, a woman filed a lawsuit against the city of Newport after she fell on a trail. Some coastal towns are now closing trails to avoid similar lawsuits.

Thurston’s Board of County Commissioners adopted the Shoreline Master Program update at a meeting earlier, December 12, 2023.

Tillamook County has closed two beach access points in Oceanside and Rockaway Beach’s City Council will consider temporarily closing all beach accesses in their city at their January council meeting.

With winter storms and high tides approaching, the Quinault Indian Nation continues efforts to relocate its seaside villages.

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. With the flip of a switch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s seaside facility in Sequim, Washington, a tangle of pipes and filters whirrs into action, scrubbing acid from the cool gray waters of the Salish Sea. It’s the pilot project of Ebb Carbon, one of several companies building a business on ocean carbon removal technology. As money pours into companies promising to take greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere, there’s a small but fast-growing sector of startups that want to leverage one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks to clean up humanity's pollution: the ocean. "The ocean basically provides this huge surface for gas exchange for free," says Ebb co-founder Matthew Eisaman. “We were trying to think of the lowest-cost way to do this, and you sort of naturally comeFind out more about our Reverse Course series here. With the flip of a switch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s seaside facility in Sequim, Washington, a tangle of pipes and filters whirrs into action, scrubbing acid from the cool gray waters of the Salish Sea. It’s the pilot project of Ebb Carbon, one of several companies building a business on ocean carbon removal technology. As money pours into companies promising to take greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere, there’s a small but fast-growing sector of startups that want to leverage one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks to clean up humanity's pollution: the ocean. "The ocean basically provides this huge surface for gas exchange for free," says Ebb co-founder Matthew Eisaman. “We were trying to think of the lowest-cost way to do this, and you sort of naturally comeFind out more about our Reverse Course series here. With the flip of a switch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s seaside facility in Sequim, Washington, a tangle of pipes and filters whirrs into action, scrubbing acid from the cool gray waters of the Salish Sea. It’s the pilot project of Ebb Carbon, one of several companies building a business on ocean carbon removal technology. As money pours into companies promising to take greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere, there’s a small but fast-growing sector of startups that want to leverage one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks to clean up humanity's pollution: the ocean. "The ocean basically provides this huge surface for gas exchange for free," says Ebb co-founder Matthew Eisaman. “We were trying to think of the lowest-cost way to do this, and you sort of naturally come to rely on Earth systems that are already happening anyway.” to rely on Earth systems that are already happening anyway.” to rely on Earth systems that are already happening anyway.”

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Beach erosion is a natural process that continues to affect the Oregon coastline; however, some erosion can be attributed to climate change, experts say.

Fast-spreading invasive aquatic mussels are hitching rides on boats, kayaks and jet skis. So, people are working to keep them out of the Columbia River Basin, the only major river basin in the U.S. without an established quagga mussel population.

TWIN FALLS (Idaho Capital Sun) — Idaho state officials are hopeful that the approximately $3 million effort to kill invasive quagga mussels detected in the Snake River in September was successful. But they don’t expect to know if they wiped out all of the mussels until waters warm up and water sampling surveys resume next spring.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations that could force the companies to stop using a chemical added to almost every tire because it kills migrating salmon.

(OLYMPIA, Wash. — November 2, 2023) Today, the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) issued a statement outlining Washington’s intent to pursue linking its cap-and-invest program with the joint cap-and-trade system operated in California and Quebec.

A 100-year old jetty used to protect Ocean Shores. Can new technologies save its south end?

Right now, fisheries managers in British Columbia and beyond can’t track salmon returns in real-time. “Salmon Vision” could change that

When tens of thousands of pink salmon became stranded in the Indian River during September’s unrelenting drought, the nation raced into action, continuing their work to rehabilitate culturally significant spawning streams crippled under the twin pressures of climate change and industrial development

Oregon State University will be receiving a $500,000 federal grant towards assessing the impact of sea level rise against backshore dune environments.

The determination will help ocean commercial fishermen in Oregon recover from significant economic losses in 2018, 2019, and 2020 from declining salmon populations

In the first of hopefully more easings of the state and tribal fishing moratorium on the Elwha that began in 2011, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is holding a ceremonial and subsistence fishery on the now damless north Olympic Peninsula river, using rods and lures to catch coho.

Oregon’s nearshore waters were once the homeland to thousands of sea otters, an iconic species in the history of what is now known as Oregon.

In 1605, the intrepid Don Quixote came upon looming, hostile giants in the countryside. Trusted friend Sancho Panza tried to dissuade the hero from tilting against them.

With the plonk of fishing tackle in clear, green water, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's first fishery on a free-flowing river in more than a century got underway.

COOS COUNTY, Ore. — Coos County's Board of Commissioners has voted to gather community feedback before passing a proclamation against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) wind energy efforts off Coos Bay.

Oregon’s breathtaking coastline, particularly around Lincoln City, is no stranger to attracting visitors. While the sun-soaked summer days invite beach enthusiasts, the ferocious winter storms hold a unique allure. These storms, especially in the heart of winter, display the Pacific Ocean’s might with towering waves crashing onto the beaches.

A new survey shows that coastal Oregon’s recreational industry joins more conventional, store-front businesses in believing the state’s Marine Reserves do not negatively impact their bottom lines, continuing a vast shift in what businesses feared just before the first reserves were established more than a decade ago.

The Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission has voted to allow beach driving to continue in fall, winter, and spring at one access point in Lincoln City and to prohibit it year-round at the other starting Oct. 1 due to ongoing safety issues.

A new survey shows that coastal Oregon’s recreational industry joins more conventional, store-front businesses in believing the state’s Marine Reserves do not negatively impact their bottom lines, continuing a vast shift in what businesses feared just before the first reserves were established more than a decade ago.

Miranda Gray is the newest waters resource specialist for Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon State University Extension Service