By: Teresa Carey, PBS Newshour A migratory bird can predict its own future, and this crystal ball-like indicator can be found in its genes. In a study published Thursday in Science, biologists […]Read More
Environment
Oregon is suing the agro-chemical company Monsanto to help clean up toxic chemicals in the environment. The Attorney General’s Office filed suit last week in Multnomah County Circuit Court.Read More
Emergency meetings are underway to discuss the threat of a possible landslide near Yakima. Dozens of federal, state, county and tribal officials are trying to work out a plan as this threat looms.Read More
Officials in Yakima County are strongly urging residents living below a shifting mountainside near Union Gap to evacuate. A huge crack that appeared on Rattlesnake Ridge last year is beginning to widen. Read More
Sixty different entities in a salmon recovery project have been collaborating for nearly a decade, trying to solve the mystery of why so many of the juvenile fish die after they swim out to the ocean. Can artificial intelligence help?Read More
A new study estimates smoke from wildfires contributes to 25,000 deaths per year around the world. CREDIT: INCIWEB Listen The wildfires that burned through the Northwest this past summer […]Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the next big step in cleaning up the Portland Harbor Superfund site: inking an agreement for how pollution levels will be tested.Read More
They’ve been called devil fish. They’re No. 1 on the hit-list for invasive aquatic life in Washington waters. And they’re creeping farther and farther down the Columbia River system.Read More
In early 2018, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will make a final decision on whether to permit the Vancouver Energy Project -- the largest proposed oil-by-rail terminal in the country.Read More
The Trump administration is suspending efforts to bolster the grizzly bear population in Washington’s North Cascades. That would leave this part of the mountain range with fewer than ten of the imperiled bears.Read More
Christmas trees could be in shorter supply in about eight years. That’s because the nation is going through an evergreen seedling shortage now. Listen You might be in the […]Read More
A senior Environmental Protection Agency advisor will visit superfund sites in the Pacific Northwest this week. Ericka Cruz Guevarra reports. Superfund Task Force chair Albert Kelly will meet with state […]Read More
A Chinook salmon. Listen One of Idaho’s struggling salmon species could eventually become self-sustaining in the wild under the federal government’s new recovery strategies. The two new recovery plans are […]Read More
Chris Hooper, right, of White Salmon watches the fire caused by a derailed oil train in Mosier, Oregon, near Hood River in the Columbia River Gorge on Friday, June […]Read More
Sherpa carrying kit to base camp on Mount Everest. Listen It’s a unique problem: How to dispose of human waste on Mount Everest? The mountain’s climatic conditions and high […]Read More
The western monarch butterfly is disappearing. With its distinct orange-and-black wings, the monarch is one of America’s best-known butterflies. But for the past few decades, their numbers have dropped, threatened by climate change, pesticides and habitat loss.Read More
Coho salmon, left, and Chinook salmon, swim past viewing windows at a fish ladder at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. Photo credit: Elaine Thompson / Associated Press Listen It […]Read More
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Claire Satterwhite holds a pygmy rabbit. Photo credit: USFWS – Pacific Region Listen As wildfires rage across the Pacific Northwest, more than […]Read More
Possibly over 300,000 Atlantic Salmon escaped from a fish farm after a net pen broke near broke near Puget Sound’s Cyprus Island. Photo credit: MICHAEL C. YORK / ASSOCIATED […]Read More
Yellow jackets are aggressive and can have nests as large as a basketball. Listen Normally by late June, wasps are a common nuisance at summer barbecues. But this year, […]Read More
At issue is whether a large organic farm, Azure Standard, is letting its weeds spread onto neighboring property — and whether the government should do something about it. Neighboring farmers say the weeds have crept onto their fields, costing them time and money to control the problem. Read More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared Thursday that a weak and short-lived La Niña weather phenomenon is over.Read More
Barn Owls have very long legs, toes and talons to help them to catch prey hidden under long grass. The scientific Latin name for Barn Owl is Tyto alba alba. […]Read More
The Carlton Complex burned through Ken Bevis’ property in 2014. Since then, he hasn’t cut down the dead trees — they make great bird habitat. Ken Bevis has left somewhere […]Read More
Nestlé is looking to build a commercial water bottling plant in the Northwest. It’s most recent pitch is to the town of Waitsburg, Washington, about 20 miles north of Walla […]Read More
Palm-sized pygmy rabbits like to create burrows under mounds of sagebrush. For more than a decade, Washington’s pygmy rabbits have struggled to come back from the brink of extinction. […]Read More
Sara Schilling, Courtney Flatt and Eddie Goss pose for a picture at the summit of Mount Adams. This was their first attempt climbing up Washington’s second tallest volcano, which stands […]Read More
Derek Churchill takes notes during a meeting before crews begin marking trees. Churchill and his team have developed a system that uses data points to help crews know they’re […]Read More
Brandon Hopkins is a WSU honey bee researcher who developed a method for freezing honey bee semen, allowing for easier bee breeding. Photo credit: Max Bartlett American honey bees […]Read More
A honey bee feeds on – and pollinates – an almond blossom at a California orchard. Bees are essential to the almond industry. Forty-two percent of America’s honey bees died […]Read More
Sheri Tonn, with Citizens for a Healthy Bay, looks at the old Occidental Chemical Corporation site from a boat on the Hylebos Waterway. For decades the facility produced drycleaning […]Read More
Jennifer Garcia with her daughter, Hannah, 2. Garcia found out the soil in her yard tested high for arsenic. It’s left over from pesticides sprayed before the 1950s on […]Read More
Bill Rietveldt, Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center curator, shows off apple labels. “The great northern railroad advertised Wentachee as ‘The Place to Go Grow Apples,” Rietveldt said. “That’s […]Read More
Andrew Shields, a wildlife biologist for Roaring Springs Ranch in southeastern Oregon, searches for a radio collared sage grouse. Photo credit: Courtney Flatt Listen The plight of greater sage […]Read More
The Yellowstone grizzly bear is an omnivore, it eats meat, fruits, berries, grass and bugs. Photo credit: Yellowstone National Park Listen Would you like to see more grizzly bears […]Read More
