Barbara Slott stands near some flowering plants that will provide nectar for monarch butterflies. (Credit: Karen Richards / KLCC) KLCC | By Karen Richards A small nonprofit in rural Douglas […]Read More
Washington state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to keep gray wolves’ endangered status. (Credit: William Campbell) Listen (Runtime 0:54) Read Gray wolves will keep their endangered status in Washington state. […]Read More
Andrew Pogue, co-founder of Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle, reaches for fireweed leaves on a foraging trip. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 3:46) Read One craft brewery in […]Read More
The Columbia River west of the Gorge as it heads toward Portland and out to the Pacific Ocean. (Credit: Amelia Templeton / OPB) Listen (Runtime 1:01) Read After more than […]Read More
Mule deer in tall grasses and forbs, Iwetemlaykin Heritage Site, Wallowa Valley, Oregon. Listen (Runtime 4:46) Read Chris Rau — a home chef, hunter, and student in the College of […]Read More
Crews are treating Moses Lake so that it has a smaller chance of harmful algal blooms this summer. (Credit: EutroPHIX) Listen (Runtime 1:08) Read In 2018 and 2019, toxic algae […]Read More
Hotspots at the Lineage Logistics fire in Finley, Washington, flared up Tuesday because of high winds. The fire has been burning for seven weeks. (Credit: Benton County Fire District 1) […]Read More
A historic 400-year-old tree in Thurston County could soon meet its end. A group of advocates are trying to save the Davis Meeker Garry oak in Tumwater, Washington, after the […]Read More
A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Listen (Runtime 1:22) Read In a recent heated committee hearing on Capitol Hill, U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, […]Read More
Fire crews spray water on rubble at the Lineage Logistics fire in Finley, Washington. The fire started on April 21. (Credit: Benton County Fire District 1) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read […]Read More
The city of Kennewick has found “forever chemicals” in its drinking water. (Credit: Steve Johnson / Flickr Creative Commons) Listen (Runtime 0:53) Read The city of Kennewick has detected “forever […]Read More
Cross country skiers line up at the start of the 2014 Ski to Sea race. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network) Listen (Runtime 1:04) Read Snow-covered undulating trails will […]Read More
Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Listen (Runtime 0:58) Read Grizzly bears will be brought into Washington’s North Cascades. After more than 30 years […]Read More
The Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco is piloting a new program that could lead the country in cleanly disposing of deicing wastewater using worms. (Credit: BioFiltro) Listen (Runtime 0:57) Read To […]Read More
A wind farm. (Credit: Roberta Schonborg / Flikr Creative Commons) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read Looking back on this past winter, some Northwest utilities have noticed they were really close to […]Read More
Scientist Kris Bauer measures a pyrosome that was caught in a net aboard the Bell M. Shimada in May 2022. (Credit: Courtney Flatt, Northwest News Network) Listen (Runtime 0:59) Read […]Read More
Hat Rock, 2022, acrylic on panel, by Erik Sandgren (American, b. 1952) is on display at the Maryhill Museum until Nov. 15. (Courtesy: Maryhill Museum) Listen (Runtime 0:56) Read The […]Read More
U.S. Army Soldiers with the Washington National Guard fire an M777 towed 155 mm howitzer at a direct fire range during annual training at the Yakima Training Center. (Credit: Staff […]Read More
Researcher Sara Hutton, a doctoral graduate of OSU, extracts RNA for qPCR to test gene expression of genes effected by pyrethroid exposure in the different generations of inland silverside fish. […]Read More
Yakama Nation aviary biologists Michael Beckler (left) and Alyssa Woodward pose for a photo with Yakama Nation Tribal Council member Terry Heemsah (center) as Washington State University wildlife veterinarian Dr. […]Read More
People walk along a trail at Leslie Groves Park in Richland, Wash. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read A new study has found – when it […]Read More
A photo illustration of a tobacco hawkmoth navigating to a flower amid air fouled by vehicle exhaust emissions. (Credit: Floris Van Breugel / Courtesy Of The University Of Washington) Listen […]Read More
A view from the edge of the cliff where the Goldendale Energy Storage Project could be built. An underground tunnel would carry water from a upper reservoir to a reservoir […]Read More
Bighorn sheep are highly susceptible to a pathogen they can catch from domestic sheep. (Credit: Kim Keating / USGS) Listen (Runtime 1:07) Read Bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon are turning […]Read More
A controversial wind farm that was set to be the largest in Washington has been slashed nearly in half. (Credit: John McIntyre, / Flickr Creative Commons) Listen (Runtime 0:57) Read […]Read More
A gray wolf. (Credit: William Campbell) Listen (Runtime 1:07) Read Some ranchers are saying it is time to find creative ways to deal with wolf attacks on livestock. That’s what […]Read More
Blue-green algae seen behind Lower Granite dam on the Snake River. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network) Listen A large algal bloom on the Snake River officially has died […]Read More
Pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacture of fast fashion are growing just as fast as the industry. A new bill in Washington aims to help lessen the industry’s […]Read More
Tree climber Matt Zhun reaches through the branches of a whitebark pine to find cones. The climbers are protecting the cones from birds and mammals that like to eat the […]Read More
The United States Forest Service, under the directive of the United States Department of Agriculture, has announced plans to apply consistent standards to the conservation, restoration and maintenance of old-growth across the country’s national forests.
It’s a first of its kind standard that many say is necessary, given threats from climate change and varied management Read More
A black bear spotted on a forest road this spring in Eastern WA. (Courtesy: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read Permits to hunt black bears in […]Read More
The second day of record-breaking heat in the Seattle area. People of all ages took advantage of the sprinklers during a free concert at the Lake Burien School Park. (Credit: […]Read More
Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River. Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said removing the four dams on the Lower Snake isn’t feasible right now. CREDIT: Bonneville […]Read More
Smallmouth bass are good indicators of methylmercury exposure to humans and wildlife because they are a common, popular sport fish and eat a variety of food during their lifetime. (Credit: […]Read More
A cross country skier follows a trail on the Sunny M Ranch property in the Methow Valley. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / NW News Network) Listen (Runtime 1:06) Read New tools […]Read More
A Western gray squirrel. (Courtesy: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) Listen (Runtime 0:54) Read Western gray squirrels will now be listed as endangered in Washington. The state Fish and Wildlife […]Read More
Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read One Northwest tribe says bringing grizzlies to the North Cascades would restore harmony to […]Read More
Quagga mussels clog a boat motor. (Credit: The Government of Alberta, Flickr Creative Commons) Listen (Runtime 0:57) Read Fast-spreading invasive aquatic mussels are hitching rides on boats, kayaks and jet […]Read More
File photo of snowy Idaho mountains. (Credit: Motowebmistress, Flickr Creative Commons) Listen (Runtime 1:03) Read For mountain snowpack to melt slowly, not all of the white fluffy stuff is created […]Read More
Sockeye salmon like these are among the salmon species in peril. (Credit: Aaron Kunz) Listen (Runtime 2:57) Read For Northwest tribes, removing the four lower Snake River dams means more […]Read More
This undated file photo provided by the National Park Service shows a grizzly bear walking along a ridge in Montana. (Credit: National Parks Service) Listen (Runtime 1:15) Read Neary 150 […]Read More
A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. The National Park Service is evaluating whether to reintroduce grizzly bears to Washington’s North Cascades. (Photo Courtesy: National Park Service) Listen Do you […]Read More
In the foothills of Mt. Rainier runs the Carbon, the Puyallup and the White Rivers, meandering through towns and cities, along roadways and near homes, the paint strokes of the natural environment now surrounded by a human-built ecosystem. Once tightly restricted by levees, these rivers are beginning to again flow closer to how they would have, not adhering to the confines Read More
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists Rochelle Labiosa (right) and Lil Herger examine the Columbia River for toxic algae as Jason Pappani leans over to reach into the water. (Credit: Rajah […]Read More
Blue-green algae seen behind Lower Granite dam on the Snake River. (Credit: Courtney Flatt) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read From the air above Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River, a […]Read More
Jeremy, Stella and Manaia Wolf, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, collect fresh fir boughs in the Rainwater Wildlife Area near Dayton, Wash. The fir boughs […]Read More
The City of Tacoma hearing examiner has upheld the city’s decision to issue a development permit for a mega-warehouse in South Tacoma.
The permit decision was appealed by Seattle nonprofit EarthJustice, on behalf of the South Tacoma Neighborhood Council and 350 Tacoma, which argued that the city and developer hadn’t adequately analyzed the environmental impacts of the Read More
A mustard-yellow cloud forms above Finley, Washington. The chemical was nitric acid and was released by a fertilizer factory. (Courtesy: Jessica Bergman) Read An early-morning agricultural chemical release frightened many […]Read More
Washington Rep. Steve Tharinger of the 24th district became intimately acquainted with levee setbacks when he discovered the levee protecting his house on the lower Dungeness River was not only not protecting his house, but harming the ecosystem too.
“I sold my house and the five acres in a barn we had, so that we'd have more room to move that levee back and give the Read More
Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (Courtesy: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Listen (Runtime 0:57) Read Federal officials are considering several possibilities to bring grizzly bears to Washington’s North Cascades. […]Read More