In science news this week: Reclaiming the lost population: Recent release part of plan to repopulate winter Chinook salmon in upper Battle Creek after the loss of nearly the entire in-river juvenile population during the drought of 2014 and 2015:  “Winter-run Chinook salmon are unique in that they spawn during the summer months, from mid-April to mid-August, when California is at its hottest. This proved to be catastrophic in 2014 and 2015 when the drought killed nearly the entire in-river … Continue reading SCIENCE NEWS: Reclaiming the lost salmon population, Conserving wetlands, On the flyway highway, Survive the sound, Microplastics take flight; and more …