To support Washington’s transition to generating power and electricity using renewable energy sources, the State Department of Ecology is leading a new collaborative process to identify potential risks and...
Discover the science that shapes our world by exploring the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) traveling exhibit “Resilient Earth, Resilient Communities” at Edmonds College starting Nov. 17.
Through content...
Washington’s lands commissioner, Dave Upthegrove, is on a mission to secure $60 million of additional wildfire funding in next year’s legislative session, despite a tightening budget outlook.
On Monday, he...
The Washington Department of Ecology said it has adopted changes to vehicle emission standards known as Advanced Clean Trucks and Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus, which expand access to new...
October is Flood Awareness Month, marking the shift away from warm and dry weather to the start of fall precipitation. Rain is especially needed now to help alleviate Washington’s...
A long-running court battle over how to balance protections for endangered fish with hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin has resumed after a two-year pause.
Conservationists, anglers and clean...
Washington Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove defended his decision to pause some timber sales and said he will seek 2026 legislation to diversify revenue from state trust lands, arguing...
The birds and the bees like it. And so do the human neighbors.
Judging from the chatter, chickadees, nuthatches and Steller jays are enjoying the ongoing restoration of a small...
Cindy R. Elliser -- a marine mammalogist, associate director of the Salish Sea Institute at Western Washington University and founder and research director of Pacific Mammal Research (PacMam) --...
Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any thicker for at least another two years as...
The Trump administration Wednesday nixed funding for the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub and several hundred other federally-subsidized clean energy projects in Democratic-led states.
Democratic politicians from Oregon and Washington state...
Hydrilla. Pondweed. Loosestrife.
These might sound like the newest Gen Alpha slang, but they are actually far more obnoxious, or you might say, "noxious." They are noxious weeds -- the legal...
The federal government is unenthusiastic about cranking up its biggest cleanup project next month at the Hanford nuclear site in south-central Washington. But it will meet an Oct. 15...
Washington tribal leaders and environmental advocates are speaking out against the Trump administration’s plan to repeal protections for 2 million acres of national forests in the state.
The U.S. Forest...
A billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded enterprise to kickstart a clean hydrogen industry in the Pacific Northwest took another hit due to energy companies getting cold feet.
Portland General Electric and its partner...
Washington loggers, school leaders and conservation activists on Wednesday decried the state lands commissioner’s proposal to set aside 77,000 acres of older forests while opening 29,000 acres back up...
The Snohomish Conservation District (SCD) and Verdant Health Commission have teamed up to help teach kids at the Edmonds Boys & Girls Club how to grow their own food....
The Edmonds Waterfront Center welcomes Edward P. Kolodziej, internationally recognized environmental chemist and the Allan and Inger Osberg Professor at the University of Washington (Tacoma/Seattle) as the featured speaker...
In July, the state's Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) opened recruitment to fill more than 250 member positions across the state that will start on Oct. 1.
WCC is a career-development...
