Environment Nick on the Rocks: Mount Baker, the volcano born from volcanoes Shifting glaciers revealed the North Cascade peak’s origins, forged from three ancient volcanoes that lived and died over the past million years. by Shannen Ortale / January 12, 2024
Environment Nick on the Rocks: The North Cascades' gneiss-est bedrock The range’s oldest bedrock sits high in the mountains near Canada. But the yellow aster gneiss originated an ocean away 400 million years ago. by Shannen Ortale / January 19, 2024
Environment Nick on the Rocks: The mystery of Waterville's basalt boulders Just north of Withrow, WA, pancake-flat fields are dotted with massive rocks that help us visualize an Ice Age glacier. by Shannen Ortale / January 26, 2024
Environment Nick on the Rocks: Why Mount Shuksan is made of sea green stone Greenschist gets its tint from minerals compressed under the ocean long ago. Now it caps an entire mountaintop in the North Cascades. Special thanks to Central Washington University as the original... by Shannen Ortale / January 5, 2024
Environment The weather situation is worse than you think National Weather Service charts. Click to enlarge. by Chuck Taylor / June 10, 2008
Politics People for Puget Sound responds Kathy Fletcher, the executive director of People for Puget Sound, has responded to Daniel Jack Chasan's Crosscut article about setting priorities — performing triage, essentially — as we plan to... by Chuck Taylor / August 8, 2008
Environment Department of Journalistically Redundant News Department Nearly identical eclipse photos in <i>The Seattle Times</i> (top) and the <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i>. by Chuck Taylor / February 20, 2008
Environment Fun with climate data: divergent rainfall totals Temperature and precipitation in Quillayute, Wash. by Chuck Taylor / December 4, 2007
Politics Storm coverage roundup A slice of <i>The Oregonian</i>'s map of storm news. by Chuck Taylor / December 3, 2007
Politics Record rain, landslides, flooding ... Pretty much all hell is breaking loose and sliding downhill throughout the region today. The best place to get an overview of what's going wrong in metro Seattle is at the Regional Public Information... by Chuck Taylor / December 3, 2007