Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Tue, Sep 23, 5 p.m.
There are many contributing factors to explain Hood Canal's dead zone, and not all of them stem from human activity. Septic tanks have often been singled out as a main culprit, but it's not clear whether cleaning them up would clean up Puget Sound. Still, building more sewers might help, and it certainly won't hurt.
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Posted Wed, Sep 3, midnight
Impatient for solutions to AIDS, tuberculosis, and infectious disease, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put out a call for anyone who thought they had an idea — and more than 4,000 poured forth. A second request for grant applications goes out today.
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Posted Tue, Dec 30, 6 a.m.
This fast-growing, light-weight poplar is finding a market in a more carbon-conscious forest-products industry.
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Posted Fri, Dec 26, 6 a.m.
Conservatives in the region pay too much heed to national conservative themes and not enough to the deep values of the Northwest. These values do not necessitate liberal politics.
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Posted Wed, Dec 24, 12:01 p.m.
A Seattle transplant sums up the region's snowstorm-response failings.
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Posted Tue, Dec 23, 6 a.m.
Back East, folks somehow think it's enough to carry a reusable bag to a farmer's market. That prompts a screed against saving the earth with symbols.
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Posted Fri, Dec 19, 6 a.m.
Here's a set of gift book suggestions culled from the year's worth of new titles on nature and the environment.
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Posted Mon, Dec 15, 6 a.m.
Lacking top figures in the Obama administration from the region, area environmentalists are linking forest and salmon issues to a cause Obama understands better: climate change.
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Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
Another task Obama inherits is trying to bail out America's botched effort to have a pavilion at Shanghai's Expo 2010, the largest world's fair in history. There are reasons to hope that "yes, he can."
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Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
The pressure for real estate and the short-term perspective of fancy Wall Street financial instruments have changed the old line companies utterly.
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Posted Mon, Dec 8, noon
The Puget Sound Partnership has an Action Agenda, but so far no Answer Agenda. Here are some tough questions.
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Posted Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.
With Obama's new New Deal gaining momentum, let's remain skeptical of big projects that are touted as economic saviors. States like ours may be desperate, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 4:08 p.m.
The ocean's acidity around a tiny island off the Washington coast has been changing 10 times faster than expected. The surprising finding might reflect an oceanic hot spot, rather than a broader trend.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Here's an analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision to continue allowing the Navy to use sonar in the presence of marine mammals. It's not as simple an issue as you might think.
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Posted Mon, Nov 24, 11 a.m.
A coalition of environmental groups just won a court decision, blocking Shell from drilling exploration wells in the Beaufort Sea. The ruling bears on the impacts of noise on bowhead whales.
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Posted Fri, Nov 21, 5 a.m.
The Puget Sound Partnership has produced its draft action agenda, tempered by the fiscal realities of the coming Legislature. It locates the real challenge: how we treat the land around the Sound.
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Posted Sat, Nov 15, midnight
There are risks in thinking small while trying to make a greener city.
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Posted Thu, Nov 13, midnight
A Fremont shop will show you how chocolate goes from bean to bar.
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Posted Mon, Nov 10, 6:46 p.m.
The campaign symbol that got away. Plus: tales of ravenous locusts, obese bears, Bigfoot's B.C. invasion, and more animal news.
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Posted Sun, Nov 9, 11:12 p.m.
Author Bruce Barcott, who wrote a book about the mountain, recounts the visible effects of climate shifts: plants growing higher up, melting glaciers releasing rocks and silt, climbing routes turning from ice to rock.
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Posted Thu, Oct 23, midnight
The only thing keeping it from succeeding here are the myths propagated by foes, says this economics journalist. Here's a line-by-line debunking.
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Posted Wed, Oct 22, 5:04 p.m.
Three minor events and some media breaks earn Gov. Chris Gregoire one more click on the Crosscut (not-exactly-scientific) measuring device.
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Posted Sat, Dec 27, 5 p.m. 2008
The clean coal debate just got a new twist, after a dam holding an ashy sludge breaks in Appalachia.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 29, noon 2008
A Washington Post story indicates that after a major multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar effort, there's little or no progress in saving Chesapeake Bay.
MOREPosted Thu, Dec 25, 4:26 p.m. 2008
Jane Lubchenco's designation to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), signals Barack Obama's intent to get serious about climate change. It is also recognition of Pacific Northwest leadership in marine science.
MOREPosted Thu, Dec 18, 6 a.m. 2008
A large group of environmental organizations send Obama suggestions for his first 200 days or undoing Bush policies and getting serious about modern forest protection.
MOREPosted Thu, Dec 18, noon 2008
The office has attracted scoundrels who shamelessly favored private resource interests. Also, it's become a chance for presidents to make a political statement.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 8, 3 p.m. 2008
Gathered on the shore of Maury Island, residents wonder how we could be allowing Glacier Northwest to start loading nearly 3 million tons of gravel a year.
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 5, 9 a.m. 2008
Go ahead, cut that tree, and feel good about your environmental footprint.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 2, 8:54 p.m. 2008
Seattle considers new, and over-due, limits of tree-cutting on private property.
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 6, 12:36 p.m. 2008
Scientists take a pulse before Elwha dam removal.
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