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To save salmon, a tribe near Seattle is flooding farmland : NPR

KUOW - Emergency repairs sought for damaged Stanwood levee north of Seattle

KUOW - Forest Service axes research stations as severe fire season threatens Pacific Northwest

KUOW - Mystery orcas return to Seattle area

KUOW - Bee survey finds dozens of species new to Washington state

KUOW - Why a Seattle cement plant burns a million tires a year and wants to burn more

KUOW - Mystery orcas from afar thrill Seattle-area whale watchers

Major snow dump buoys Northwest skiers, can’t undo snow drought

KUOW - As U.S. abandons climate fight, Washington state feels the heat to do more

KUOW - The Stillaguamish Tribe gives its river north of Seattle room to roam

KUOW - Flooding is a familiar foe on the Lummi Reservation

King County’s little red fish swims back from brink of extinction

Amtrak engineer on Seattle-bound train nearly impaled by fallen tree

Climate pollution surges in Washington state after pandemic lull

Seattle recycling faces 'unprecedented challenges' as bottle maker closes

Dam siren blares false alarm to Skagit Valley town

Gov. Inslee in Azerbaijan for global climate talks

Have a Holly Noxious Christmas? State board eyes un-jolly label for invasive greenery

Energy foes spar with misleading claims over natural gas Initiative 2066

Mudslide shuts down I-5 North in Bellingham following extreme rain

Cold, lost sea turtle is returned from the Northwest to warm California waters

Too much cyanide in Puget Sound? EPA to review state regs

Sister seas on opposite shores face same foe: polluted runoff

Endangered Northwest orca population drops as 3 males die

River otter drags child off dock, under water in Bremerton

Shhh! The orcas can’t hear their dinner

Deadly white-nose disease is spreading in western Washington bats

Puget Sound tanker traffic thickens as Canadian pipeline boosts oil flow

Five more Seattle libraries to become extreme-heat refuges

San Juans’ sea stars start long crawl back from near-extinction

Junk from Olympic coast cargo spill still washing ashore nearly 3 years later

Jurassic shark: Scientists find ancient species in Puget Sound

Northwest tribes' salmon hatcheries get $240 million federal boost

Feds investigate Delta Air after mass cancellations, customer complaints

Mount Rainier's chubby snowbirds declared a threatened species

Home Depot fined $1.6 million for selling banned superpollutant

Fisherman ordered to pay $646,259 for oil spill off San Juan Island

BNSF Railway ordered to pay $395 million after years of trespassing on Swinomish land

Car crashes take deadly toll on Native Americans in Washington state

Damaged track switch derailed sulfur-hauling train in Whatcom County

Train carrying hazardous sulfur derails in Whatcom County

Free Amtrak for kids in Washington state – funded by big polluters

Spring heatwave prompts emergency shellfish-safety rule

Seattle sees 4 days in a row of record springtime heat

Incoming Northwest heatwave 5x more likely due to climate change

Homeless man charged with derailing Tacoma oil train

Northwest waters buck global heating trend (for now)

Seattle to get garbage hauler to take down misleading green ads

Tacoma ship fire worse for climate than burning a million gallons of gasoline

Northwest’s hottest summer in 1,000 years revealed by tree rings

Safety device, human error derailed Anacortes train, federal officials say

Pizza-sized predators to get federal protection

FBI offers $50,000 to catch Northwest grid's armed attackers

Dam owner pleads guilty after spilling turf, tire bits in Puyallup River

WA lawmakers eye ban on 2-mile-long trains

Hydropower in western U.S. resurges after hitting 20-year low

Seattle hospital puts patients under without overheating the planet

Washington state starts capping climate pollution from its biggest sources

Change the channel? New (or very old) name sought for Hood Canal

Scientists try to keep up with chemical blizzard entering Puget Sound

RIP Washington’s Hinman Glacier, gone after thousands of years

FBI warned of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest grid spiked

Suspects in Christmas grid attacks planned additional crimes, prosecutors say

Washington grid attacks flew under the radar for months

Washington state's high point has a national park. Its low point doesn’t have a name

Christmas brings new round of attacks on Northwest power grid

‘Tis the season … for king tides around Puget Sound

Deadly flu hits Washington birds

String of electrical grid attacks in Pacific Northwest are unsolved

Invasive crab population keeps booming in Washington

Murder kittens: outdoor cats take heavy toll on wildlife

To outwit a giant hornet, scientists try speaking its language

The case of the dying newts: an Olympic Peninsula mystery

Stark federal report: climate chaos is here, with worse to come

This Ivy League wages hand-to-leaf combat against an English strangler

KUOW's League of Murder Creatures

'Yogurt for bats': A new way to fight a deadly pandemic

Seattle's carbon pollution drops with Covid. A rebound is expected

Where leaded gas still flies in the United States

Seattle's carbon pollution drops with Covid. A rebound is expected

Struggling customers' water, power would stay on during heat waves under new proposal

Samish elders celebrate Cayou Channel

On a low tide, two stories collide: Reporter's Notebook

Fishing boat lifted out of orca waters after 5 weeks on sea floor

Coast Guard postpones effort to remove sunken fishing boat after lifting it to surface

Sunken fishing boat ready to resurface after 5 weeks on sea floor

Lawsuit aims to protect a rare West Coast carnivore, the fisher

What it’s like to evacuate from a forest fire: the view from Index

High-end coolers wash up on Alaska beaches after Washington cargo spill

Fishing boat that sank in orca waters ran into trouble 24 hours earlier

Swinomish Tribe builds U.S.’s first modern ‘clam garden,' reviving ancient practice

Second heat wave of 2022 hits Northwest. A third is in the forecast

Incredibly lucky:' Endangered orcas dodge diesel spill off San Juan Island

Washington to phase out new gasoline-powered cars by 2035

Behemoth moth lands in Bellevue, alarming agriculture officials

Washington heat wave kills 10. Emergency rooms treat 540 heat victims

Lowest tides in 13 years coming to Puget Sound

Renton neighbors object to storing climate-friendly batteries in their community

'It's bringing healing:' Methow Valley land returned to Colville Tribes

Tri-Cities researchers say they can extract lithium from water. That's a big deal

Scenic Tacoma road permanently closed to cars. Blame climate change

Looking for an electric vehicle? Here’s why they’re hard to find in Washington

Seattle fish research could shake up global tire industry

Kelp has protected Samish people for millennia. Now it needs their help

Scientists race to rescue world’s fastest sea star from oblivion

Amazon's pollution grows despite massive green energy push

Olympic Peninsula glaciers expected to disappear in next 50 years

Covid sewage data kept under wraps despite possible public health benefits

New highways headed to Seattle area despite drive to fight climate change

Rare whale that visited Seattle washes up dead in Canada

Seattle-bound cargo ship spills 90 shipping containers

Electric vehicle sales have surged in Washington state. But gas cars still dominate

Biden ban on Russian oil hits Anacortes, Washington refinery

Can’t we just eat those invasive crabs until they’re gone? (Probably not)

Cargo-spilling ship leaves Northwest, returns to Asia. Its debris remains

These scientists are fighting the pandemic with sewage

Think 85,000 invasive crabs is a lot? Wait 'til you see Vancouver Island

VIDEO: Runaway tanker rolls free for 15 miles near Walla Walla, hitting 50 mph

Washington Gov. Inslee declares European green crab emergency

Seattle's 'green' power violates salmon's legal rights, tribe says

Sea level on steroids: Record tides flood Washington coastlines

For the Northwest, climate change was hard to ignore in 2021

Jumping slugs: the tiny, slimy acrobats of Northwest forests

Health officials pin Covid outbreaks on high school wrestling tourneys

Battered ship finds a port. 105 of its cargo containers presumed sunk

Shoreline nixes natural gas in climate change move, but not all is snuffed out

Lummi Nation combats massive outbreak of invasive European crabs

New bus fuel is 'carbon neutral,' Pierce Transit claims. It's not

Northern Washington tribes fear ‘devastation’ of salmon by extreme floodwaters

Lummi tribe improvises as flooding turns its reservation into an island

Big Northwest floods a ‘dress rehearsal’ for a hotter climate

How one Northwest tribe aims to keep its cool as its glaciers melt

Northwest glaciers are melting. What that means to Indigenous ‘salmon people’