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Environment

Snow or no? Northwest’s water outlook gets murky with federal cuts

Agencies that keep tabs on Northwest rivers and snowpack have been shedding scientists under the Trump administration.
John Ryan
Environment

What a ‘cloud’ of small earthquakes means for the PNW, and how to prepare for bigger ones

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network director Harold Tobin joined KUOW’s Kim Malcolm to discuss our recent shakeups, and how to prepare for more damaging events.
Kim Malcolm

John O'Brien
Environment

Cleanup at Seattle's Green Lake targets abandoned fishing lines that can ensnare wildlife

Abandoned fishing lines are the focus of a volunteer cleanup effort at Seattle’s Green Lake this weekend. The stray lines are blamed for killing two owls along the water’s edge in recent years.
Amy Radil
Environment

From blubber to bone: How a whale decomposes on land

The story of the Lobby Whale at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
Brandi Fullwood

Paige Browning

Teo Popescu
Environment

A different kind of winter fun: tidepooling at night on Puget Sound

On a drizzly February night, dozens of people walked with headlamps and flashlights at water’s edge near the Edmonds, Washington, fishing pier. They weren’t there to catch fish or squid: They came to see the wonders that come out when the tide goes out.
John Ryan
Environment

Seattle's new zoning rules dial up tension around preserving tree canopy

Seattle is currently mapping how it will grow over the next 20 years. Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to double the city’s housing capacity, with the hope of bringing down costs. But as residential neighborhoods open up to new types of housing, the city’s environmental impact statement predicts “moderate tree canopy loss” as a result.
Amy Radil
Environment

Washington state clean-energy funds re-frozen by Trump White House

More than $500 million in federal funding for clean energy in Washington state is being held up by the Trump Administration.
John Ryan
Environment

'The purge has begun.' Environmental justice workers locked out of EPA Seattle office

Nine Environmental Protection Agency employees in Seattle have been put on leave by the Trump Administration because they work on environmental justice.
John Ryan
Environment

Sleetless in Seattle: City gets little rain and no snow this dry January

Whether you’ve been drinking alcohol or abstaining, it’s been an exceptionally dry January in the Seattle area.
John Ryan
Environment

The latest issue dividing Washington's lawmakers: Cow farts
Dyer Oxley

Jeanie Lindsay

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