Kelp has protected Samish people for millennia. Now it needs their help Scuba divers are heading underwater to help rescue one of the most important habitats in Puget Sound. John Ryan Play AudioListen 5 mins
Scientists race to rescue world’s fastest sea star from oblivion Scientists are racing to revive a critically endangered species that has succumbed to a mysterious underwater pandemic up and down the West Coast. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Rare whale that visited Seattle washes up dead in Canada A fin whale spotted off Seattle and Whidbey Island in January has washed up dead northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Seattle-bound cargo ship spills 90 shipping containers Nine of the spilled containers are carrying flammable lithium-ion batteries and are considered dangerous cargo. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Cargo-spilling ship leaves Northwest, returns to Asia There’s still no sign of 105 shipping containers that the Zim Kingston lost during a storm off the Olympic Peninsula. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Think 85,000 invasive crabs is a lot? Wait 'til you see Vancouver Island While record numbers of green crabs were found near Bellingham last year, even more of the voracious European crabs have turned up just across Washington’s watery border with Canada. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Sea level on steroids: Record tides flood Washington coastlines Some of the highest tides ever recorded hit Seattle and much of the Washington coast this week. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Battered ship finds a port. 105 of its cargo containers presumed sunk The ship that spilled more than a hundred cargo containers off the Washington coast, then caught fire has made it safely into port. The same cannot be said for much of the Zim Kingston’s cargo. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Ship that spilled 100+ containers could have ridden out the storm in sheltered waters The ship that spilled more than 100 shipping containers off the Washington coast was in a holding pattern on the open ocean when it could have ridden out the storm in sheltered waters. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Big shippers promise zero carbon by 2040. Too late, say climate activists Major shippers including Amazon and Ikea say they will stop putting their stuff on ships that burn fossil fuels in the next 20 years. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
