Giant Shipper Bets Big On Ending Its Carbon Emissions. Will It Pay Off? Maersk, the world's largest container shipping company, has set a massive goal for itself: going carbon neutral by 2050. This would be good for the world. But how would it be good for the bottom line?
KUOW Newsroom Air agency: Tacoma gas plant not a climate threat. Science: yes it is Environmentalists have soured on natural gas. It used to be viewed as a promising step in the transition from dirtier fuels like coal and oil toward a climate-friendly future.
High-Tide Flooding On The Rise, Especially Along The East Coast, Forecasters Warn As sea levels rise, coastal flooding that used to happen only during storms is increasingly occurring on sunny days. That has local officials reconsidering everything from zoning to police budgets.
France Plans To Put An 'Ecotax' On Nearly All Air Travel The new tax could bring in some $200 million that would be used to support modes of travel that pollute less — such as trains.
Plastic Has A Big Carbon Footprint — But That Isn't The Whole Story Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. Largely overlooked is how making plastic affects the environment. Plastic is a big contributor to global warming. So are its alternatives.
Taking The Temperature Of NPR's Climate Coverage For some, the coverage is not hot enough (and hard to find).
KUOW Newsroom Have you noticed all the cotton fluff drifting in the air? "What's up with all the white fluff in the air?" That was one listener's question we recently answered in our SoundsQs podcast.
KUOW Newsroom Jay Inslee's 5 minutes of debate fame: Here's what he did with it Five minutes of debate time – that’s all Washington Gov. Jay Inslee got Wednesday night. Here's what he did with his fleeting moments.
Himalayan glaciers are melting, per old school spy satellites Scientists are using old spy satellite images to measure the effects of climate change. They're finding that glaciers in the Himalayas are melting twice as fast as they were a few decades earlier.
KUOW Newsroom Washington tribes and Inslee alarmed by Canadian pipeline approval Expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Vancouver, B.C., area would boost tanker traffic in Washington waters, poses threat to orcas.
