animals

Call it "canary in the smoke-choked city."While people are struggling with the unhealthy air quality in Seattle, the animals are having similar…

There has been an extraordinary federal-local-tribal effort aimed at nursing the killer whale known as J50 back to health. But is it far enough?Seattle…

Seattle, you may have noticed some new neighbors around lately. Not the ones who moved here to work at Amazon — that’s another story entirely. We’re…

Scientists have taken an unprecedented step to save one of the Salish Sea’s 75 endangered orcas: They tried to feed her in the wild.On board a Lummi…

Bill Radke talks about our anthropomorphizing of the grieving mother orca, Tahlequah, and what it tells us about how humans think about mothering and…

A grieving mother orca has finally let her dead calf go, ending her "tour of grief."J35, also known as Tahlequah, was seen Saturday off San Juan Island…

An extraordinary effort to feed a sick, young orca got underway Friday morning in the waters west of Bellingham.Crews loaded 24 live chinook salmon into…

As scientists searched Salish sea waters for the young, emaciated orca known as J50, they spotted her relative, still carrying her dead calf.The relative…

J50 is alive.The emaciated, 3 1/2-year-old orca had seemingly gone missing over the weekend, leading some biologists to worry that she may have died.Plans…