About 30,000 Whatcom County landowners will be receiving certified letters in the mail this week asking about how they use water. It’s the first step in a Whatcom County Superior Court case involving ...

The Washington Senate unanimously passed a bill earlier this month that would require the state Department of Ecology to ...

Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to ...

Casey Sixkiller heads up the state's environmental policy. His role has new importance amid a second Trump term.

Water is misused as a weapon when infrastructure and water resources are deliberately destroyed in armed conflicts. Water ...

The Washington State House of Representatives passed a bill this week that attempts to fulfill a promise made years ago to ...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.

The Yakima Basin has had back-to-back droughts in 2023 and 2024. Heading into irrigation season, we are getting a better idea ...

The use of AI-driven drone technology to study animal populations will be the focus of a March 28 “Fridays at Findlay” ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologists agree that habitat loss and the fragmentation of forests reduces ...

Prices for air pollution allowances under Washington’s cap-and-trade law climbed again at the state’s first auction of the ...