environment

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

When it comes to wildfires, the people of Wenatchee remember 2012.The air was so choked with smoke that summer camps were canceled and kids kept inside.…

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…

Stay inside if you can.With wildfire smoke billowing into the Seattle area from a number of fronts, that’s the advice of the Puget Sound Clean Agency.The…

Kim Malcolm talks with University of Washington fisheries science professor Ray Hilborn about whether boycotting chinook salmon will help the recovery of…

Washington state is dealing with a lot of weed waste — and we're not talking about the stuff you dig out of your yard.Our legal marijuana industry is…

If you're a longtime Seattleite, this may seem like one of the worst weeks ever for air pollution.Air quality experts say ... that's probably true. Puget…

The sky is ash gray; the lake is too.Wenatchee and Chelan, popular summer destinations for middle class Seattleites, look like the end of the world right…