Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:
For anyone interested in the inevitable, Aussie David Sinclair's book delving into the science of aging and why it might not be as predictable, depressing and degrading as we have all been conditioned to believe is an inspiring window into the art of aging gracefully.
Sellers of sandbags, water pumps and flotation devices take note: here is the latest inventory of the fastest sinking cities in the world. All but one of the top 10 are in Southeast Asia. North America's lone top 10 sinking city entrant is Houston, Texas. Not all that city sinking can be blamed on the 21st century's climate change whipping boy. Some, like Mexico City, are sinking because underground aquifers are being rapidly drained. The weight of a metropolitan area of 22 million people on the bed of an ancient lake might also be accelerating Mexico City's sinking. – AGU
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL098477
Nelson Bennett, reporter:
As part of its plan to halt the decline of wild salmon in B.C., the federal government’s Pacific Salmon Strategy includes money and plans for more hatchery production. But will pumping more hatchery fish into the Pacific ensure more sockeye and chinook return to B.C. waters? Not if the examples of Oregon and Washington State are anything to go by. Pro Publica took a deep dive on the issue of hundreds of salmon hatcheries in the American Northwest, and the results are not encouraging. “The hatcheries were supposed to stop the decline of salmon. They haven’t,” the piece concludes. – Pro Publica
https://www.propublica.org/article/salmon-hatcheries-government-climate-change
Glen Korstrom, reporter:
We are lucky to have a bike route as scenic as the Stanley Park seawall (at least that’s how I write, it; the New York Times jarringly writes it sea wall.) Regardless, here’s an interesting read about how to traverse Vancouver. – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/travel/vancouver-biking.html?referringSource=articleShare
