He’s trailed them and photographed them, mapped their family trees and counted their offspring, coming to identify individuals by their markings, sometimes even ascribing personalities...
For a century, we have straightened, poisoned, dug, soiled, filled and recontaminated the Duwamish River, the freshwater corridor that transformed Seattle into a major port...
After 14 years of work, the Environmental Protection Agency shares a plan for cleaning up Seattle’s polluted waterway. But when cleanup is complete, how much...
It’s not clear if a virus wiping out millions of sea stars is being influenced by climate change. But scientists say rising temperatures likely will...
The shellfish pathogen that hit California’s Channel Islands in the 1980s began to quickly kill one of the tideland’s most important animals — black abalone....
Grisly sea-star deaths are continuing to litter the tidelands with decaying, ghostly goo, but scientists now believe they, at least, may have identified the culprit....
Two weeks after its flamboyant pastor resigned under fire, Mars Hill Church announced Friday that it was dissolving and urged its local branches to try...
Jaylen Fryberg, like many Native American children, lived with a foot in each of two worlds. There was the hormone-fueled community of a suburban high-school...
Among the logistical nightmares confronting U.S. relief teams fighting Ebola in Africa is the limited capacity to medevac emergency crews home if they get sick....