A new bill aims to save salmon and orcas, but is drawing opposition from the building industry for its impact on homeowners.

A new study links warming seawater with reduced food sources for seabirds and fish.

Gov. Jay Inslee wants Washington state lawmakers to adopt a more aggressive course for curbing greenhouse gas emissions — one that better aligns with the latest science.

While Australia's catastrophic bushfires rage, local scientists are beginning to understand how smoke exposure affects mortality in the Northwest.

They call this year’s Washington legislative session an opportunity to complete unfinished business.

Fishers are on their way to recovery in Washington, completing a critical conservation milestone 12 years in the making.

Study shows trees along the coast and in the Cascade and Olympic mountains have the most potential to sequester carbon.

In the Northwest and beyond, young people helped the climate movement go mainstream this year. Where should it go from here?

Here are just a few of the amazing things Washingtonians discovered in labs, in the field and elsewhere that you may have missed.

When climate change started killing the Pacific Northwest's oysters by the millions, scientists and growers taught the world how to safeguard an ecosystem. 

After recent declines, a new breeding program could help safeguard the cockle's future as a food source for tribes like the Suquamish.

The faults under Eastern Washington aren't as famous as the feared Cascadia Subduction Zone, but they still pose a threat to communities like Walla Walla, Tri-Cities and Yakima.

Climate models predict the Northwest will receive more annual precipitation, but less of it will fall as snow. That jeopardizes fish and farms during dry summer months. 

The region is poised to lead the way in electric flight thanks to an ambitious partnership between MagniX and Harbour Air.

With Washington's natural kelp beds declining, farms could fill an ecological niche and serve an emergent market. But barriers to entry remain high.