Tag: Climate Change

Chinook Salmon Dying From Warming Waters

I was reading The Guardian newspaper online yesterday when I came across this headline: Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs Actually, it wasn’t the headline itself that caught my attention. News like this is becoming all to common lately. It was what I read a few lines into the article that stopped me in my tracks: New Zealand has a huge Chinook salmon farming industry! The biggest in the world. […]

Read more

WASABI ENDANGERED!!!

WASABI ENDANGERED!!! The front page of today’s (February 9, 2022) New York Times International Edition featured a story that took up over half the page about Japanese wasabi being endangered, mainly because of environmental factors (“A Fiery Delicacy in Peril”). Native to Japan, wasabi has been eaten for over one-thousand years, not so much as a food but as a condiment with beneficial medicinal properties. Until quite recently, wasabi was grown only in Japan, making it, in […]

Read more