From neglected gargoyles to noise assaults perpetrated by the Navy, this year has been a doozy.

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.

Two new books chronicle the history of local parks, the ‘breathing lungs and beating hearts’ of our city.

Mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and West Nile lack vaccines. But Washington scientists think insulin could weaken these diseases in mosquitoes before they reach people.

Though tribal lands are more likely to suffer from natural disasters, federal aid for the vulnerable lags behind.

A new study is attempting to link salmon exposure to toxic substances in wastewater, to orca health 

When the sturgeon population crashed in the last century, the Yakama Nation's hatchery helped bring it back. Now they hope to create a sustainable market for Washington caviar.

The secret weapons: suction cups. 

On the edge of the North Cascades, fear dominated the conversation as hundreds gathered this week to debate grizzly bear reintroduction.

After decades of court cases have rebuffed federal management, it may take a political fix to restore salmon in the Columbia Basin.

For 12 years, UW's Julian Olden has studied the native and invasive crayfish populations of Sammamish's Pine Lake. But the citizen scientists who live onshore are his secret weapon.

Bronze birch borers are thriving during the city's hotter summers. Is their infestation a sign of advancing climate change?

After over a century of fire suppression, the U.S. Forest Service is using prescribed burns as a way to reduce the risk of megafires.