6/12 Bleeding heart, Puget Sound oxygen, BC LNG, honey bee bar, Port Angeles cleanup, Trent R fish habitat, public media funding, ChatGPT, democracy watch

Pacific bleeding heart [USFS]

Pacific bleeding heart Dicentra formosa
Dicentra formosa is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae. With its fern-like foliage and inflorescence of drooping pink, purple, yellow or cream "hearts", this species is native to the United States' Pacific Northwest and West Coast of North America. (Wikipedia)

Today's top story in Salish Current: World buzzes over Lynden honeybee accident

A century of warming has reduced dissolved oxygen in Puget Sound
A University of Washington study outlines the strong link between dissolved oxygen declines and increasing water temperatures, raising questions about the effect of future climate change on Puget Sound. Sarah DeWeerdt reports. (Salish Sea Currents Magazine)

B.C. company pressures feds to pave way for $750M gas export facility in Prince Rupert
Trigon says project is in the national interest but is still facing legal hurdles at the Port of Prince Rupert. Andrew Kurjata reports. (CBC)

New honey bee energy bar tested in Washington offers hope for struggling hives
Honey bees are vital to agriculture in the Pacific Northwest. But it’s increasingly difficult to keep colonies alive from year to year, causing concern about the future of our food systems. But now an international team, including researchers at Washington State University, has developed a new supplemental food source that could keep hives strong when deployed on agricultural land. Jes Burns reports. (OPB)

Cost-sharing pact approved for western Port Angeles Harbor cleanup
Port of Port Angeles commissioners approved a provisional cost-sharing and cooperation agreement that outlines the funding, coordination and decision-making process related to the cleanup of western Port Angeles Harbor. Under the agreement, approved unanimously on Tuesday, the port and five other entities identified as potentially liable parties — the city of Port Angeles, Georgia-Pacific, Merrill & Ring, Nippon Paper Industries and Owens Corning — will each contribute one-sixth of the cost of the entire cleanup. Paula Hunt reports. (Peninsula Daily News) See also: Public comment period opens for cleanup at former Rayonier Mill site (Peninsula Daily News)

Courtenay man fined $60,000 for damaging fish habitat
David Tingley was fined for failing to correct the work he had done illegally on his property, which is bisected by the Trent River. Darron Kloster reports. (Times Colonist)

Public media funding up in the air as House prepares to vote on claw backs
The House of Representatives is expected to approve legislation Thursday to claw back two years of federal funding for public media outlets. President Trump has asked Congress for this rescission. He has labeled NPR and PBS and their affiliates as ideologically biased and the move to strip them of federal support is part of the president's continued attacks on mainstream media outlets.  Deirdre Walsh and David Folkenflik report. (NPR)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. Nitasha Tiku reports. (Washington Post)

Democracy Watch

• Trump’s top general contradicts his assessment of Putin, L.A. unrest (Washington Post)
  
• Kennedy’s new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation (AP)
  

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  236 AM PDT Thu Jun 12 2025    
TODAY  SW wind 5 to 10 kt, veering to W late. Seas 3 to 5 ft.  Wave Detail: W 6 ft at 8 seconds. A slight chance of showers this  afternoon. 
TONIGHT  W wind 10 to 15 kt, becoming SW 5 to 10 kt after  midnight. Seas 3 to 5 ft. Wave Detail: W 5 ft at 8 seconds.

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