How 50-year-old carbon emissions came back to ravage Northwest shellfish, how scientists and hatcheries unraveled the mystery of acid upwellings, and how a clam farmer persuaded Gov. Gregoire and the Obama administration to take action, with a little help from Ron Sims.
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A locally based coffee company hopes that customers will look at the effort to clean up Puget Sound and say, "We'll drink to that."
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There's all that oil from Alberta's tar sands, and coal in Wyoming and Montana. All of it is yearning to burn free, but not for free, in Asia, or wherever else top dollar will be paid.
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With Norm Dicks leaving office, the Sound needs more protection than ever from potential oil spill pollution. And shouldn't the Obama administration look for another supplier of oil for military needs?
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The lamprey may be ugly, but it is an important food source for Northwest salmon and the tribes of the Columbia River Basin. Scientists say it's nearly extinct.
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As Washington legislators make critical budget decisions, Martha Kongsgaard of the Puget Sound Partnership discusses the challenges for the state's future of potential budget cuts.
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If you're going to talk with the restaurant people and meet their needs, you have to be familiar with their favored way of serving oysters: raw.
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A Superfund site is being cleaned up. But debates continue on efforts to control the runoff that creates many water quality problems.
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSThe birth control debate moves back in time. How Norm Dicks funneled federal money to his son. Caffeine powder gives us a glimpse of the future.
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Better yet, says a new report, we should develop conservation tactics that do a better job of protecting farmland from development.
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Environmentalists are appalled at a possible end run of long-awaited Department of Ecology rules. But cities and developers say it's too much, too soon.
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New studies of where pollutants originate give scientists a clearer idea of where problems lie. Who knew that so much trouble comes from forest lands?
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Is the Seattle City Council really humble enough to follow a winning model developed elsewhere? Advocates hope so.
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After dramatic failures to meet Clean Water Act standards for stormwater runoff, Seattle is trying to protect Puget Sound with new tactics in Ballard and other parts of the city.
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But can rain gardens and smarter ways for handling storm runoff banish some of the hovering dangers?
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
State officials are defending their lack of action to remove a boat that shut down shellfish harvesting when its sinking created an oil spill off Whidbey Island.
EarthFix reports, "Algae populations boom during sunny warm weather. The spring snowmelt funneling out of rivers into Puget Sound also provides a lot of nutrients for the algae and calm winds have made for an ideal growing environment."
"Mussel harvesting has been suspended until further notice in Whidbey Island's world-renowned Penn Cove after a 128-foot derelict fishing vessel anchored there burst into flames and later sank, officials said."
EarthFix reports, "The ocean’s a pretty big place, right? Maybe not big enough for wild salmon and hatchery salmon to share, according to new research."
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