Salmond scraps climate change trip after jibes of ‘junketing’ - Herald Scotland | News | Politics

Alex Salmond has scrapped a controversial visit to the Maldives to discuss climate change after being accused of junketing and damaging the environment.

FIS - Worldnews - Cause of record Fraser sockeye salmon run a mystery

This year’s shockingly voluminous 34 million sockeye salmon run in the Fraser River may be an anomaly instead of a trend pointing to recovering stocks, scientists and fishers say.

Even though this year’s run is the biggest in nearly a century, sockeye are threatened by climate change, food shortages, viruses, poisons gushing into streams from storm runoff and other troubles, the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River was told by more than 120 people at the Victoria forum.