September 20, 2021, 10:08am Latest News
This has been a record-breaking year of drought in much of Eastern Washington, state officials say. Read story
September 15, 2021, 10:30am Nation & World
Nearly every nation is coming up short — most of them far short — in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to the internationally agreed-upon limit, according to a new scientific report. Read story
September 13, 2021, 12:44pm Latest News
Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. Read story
August 10, 2021, 6:04am Northwest
In the Pacific Northwest, shrinking glaciers, extreme heat waves, worsening droughts and acidifying oceans are all symptoms of climate change, which is affecting every corner of the globe and intensifying as emissions rise. Read story
August 9, 2021, 7:05pm Nation & World
Firefighters and residents battled into the night Monday for a seventh day against a massive fire on Greece’s second-largest island as the nation endured what the prime minister described as “a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions.” Read story
August 8, 2021, 6:04am Clark County News
At Vancouver City Hall, work is underway to develop a new plan to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. On that front, the city is not alone — across the Pacific Northwest, comparable municipalities like Spokane, Tacoma and Bend, Ore., have passed or are working on their own version… Read story
May 24, 2021, 5:46pm Nation & World
As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in 2020, which was a record-breaking year that saw more than 4 percent of the state’s land scorched by flames. Read story
May 17, 2021, 5:53pm Latest News
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a series of bills Monday designed to strengthen the environment in Washington state. Read story
March 8, 2021, 9:44am Nation & World
In a lab dubbed the “room of doom” at an Edgewater, Maryland, research center, scientists learned that climate change is no friend to lovers of meaty oysters. Read story
March 5, 2021, 3:09pm Latest News
Activists in the Pacific Northwest have warned for years that communities of color and other marginalized groups are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change, and less well-positioned to take advantage of jobs and other benefits likely to result as the region’s economy moves away from fossil fuels. Read story
