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Thursday, October 18, 2018 Lines Only. LO 10-year-old River Hendricks drops, covers, and holds onto his desk with classmates at John Hay Elementary School along with over 60 million other participants world wide on the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill. “ I wasn’t scared today” he said, “but if it’s a 7.0 or stronger I really would be”. The earthquake drill was started in Southern California in 2008. 208171

October 17, 2019 at 7:16 am

Statewide earthquake drill Thursday reminds us all to drop, cover and hold on WATCH

Millions of people around the world will take part in earthquake drills today, and emergency-management experts in Washington state are spreading the word about quick... Updated 1:33 pm

Gaspar Mateo, a bay worker (left) and Byron Brenner, a manager at Taylor Shellfish Farms in Shelton, WA, place sacks of harvested oysters into totes at a bay in Shelton May 6, 2015. After ten sacks are in each tote, they are partially covered with ice, then ten more sacks are placed on top. Those too are covered with ice. Then the totes are loaded onto a truck and taken to a refrigerated warehouse in Shelton. Washington state is starting a first-in-the-nation shellfish harvesting control plan to halt outbreaks of food poisoning. It’s overhauling the way oysters are harvested, using air and water temperatures instead of illnesses to determine when the shellfish are unsafe. Brenner and his crew cover the oysters with ice as quickly as possible to comply with the rules that went into effect May 1.

October 17, 2019 at 6:00 am

Judge tosses federal permit for Washington shellfish industry, saying it doesn’t do enough to protect environment

A federal judge found regulators did not comply with the Clean Water Act in granting a general permit in 2017 that authorizes most of the state...

** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY JULY 28 – FILE ** A section of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, is shown in this aerial photo taken in 1990. The patches of bare land in the center of the photo show where clear-cutting has occurred. The roadless rule, a Clinton-era policy that blocks development on nearly a third of national forests, may be at a dead end. The rule remains on the books, but a federal judge earlier in July, 2003, struck it down, pending appeal. The ruling case came one day before the Bush administration formally proposed exempting the nation’s two largest federal forests from the rule. Critics say the plan would open up vast areas of Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach forests for logging. (AP Photo/Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson, File)

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October 15, 2019 at 12:56 pm

Administration moves to expand logging on Alaska's Tongass National Forest

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration Tuesday proposed allowing logging on more than half of Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest...

Nation & World

In this photo taken in the early morning hours of Oct. 24, 2018, wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab in Corvallis, Ore., from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night. The experimental killing of barred owls raised such moral dilemmas when it first was proposed in 2012 that the Fish and Wildlife Service took the unusual step of hiring an ethicist to help work through whether it was acceptable and could be done humanely. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW305 WATW305

October 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

In Pacific Northwest, federal owl-killing experiment raises thorny questions VIEW

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — As he stood amid the thick old-growth forests in the coastal range of Oregon, Dave Wiens was nervous. Before he trained...

Monday, October 14, 2019. JoDe Goudy, Chairman of the Yakama Indian Nation points out to the Colmubia River while calling for the removal of Three dams, Bonneville, John Day and Dalles Dams stating,” Dams or Salmon” in an emotion plea at the Celilo Village park. 211799

October 14, 2019 at 11:36 am

Yakama, Lummi tribal leaders call for removal of three lower Columbia River dams

While calls for removal of the four dams on the Lower Snake River have been heard for decades, the demand to knock out some of...

An intersection without power in the Montclair neighborhood of Oakland, Calif., Oct. 10, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of households lost power when California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, shut down a vast web of electrical lines as a precaution against wildfires. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) XNYT67 XNYT67

October 11, 2019 at 11:50 am

With warming, get used to blackouts to prevent wildfires

WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect more preventative power blackouts in California as the climate gets hotter and drier and the wildfire season gets nastier and longer,...

In this undated handout photo provided by Carlsberg, the new paper bottle is seen in Denmark. Danish brewer Carlsberg says it is developing a paper beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibers. The Copenhagen-based company unveiled Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 two new prototypes that are “fully recyclable and have an inner barrier to allow the bottles to contain beer.” (Thomas Rockall Muus/Carlsberg via AP) LLT808 LLT808

October 11, 2019 at 9:38 am

Tastes great, less land-filling … beer in a paper bottle

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish brewer Carlsberg says it is developing a paper beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibers. The Copenhagen-based company unveiled...

Business

The hands of fisherman Edward Alexander Barrios are covered in oil as he organizes bass, known as “robalo,” that he caught in Lake Maracaibo as he returns home by boat in Cabimas, Venezuela, May 17, 2019. The oily water, petroleum fumes and daily diet of contaminated seafood expose the local villages to a host of potential health problems such as respiratory illnesses, skin lesions and even cancer, according to Cornelis Elferink, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) ABD311 ABD311

October 10, 2019 at 9:00 pm

Fishermen live in stain of Venezuela’s broken oil industry VIEW

CABIMAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nobody lives as closely with the environmental fallout of Venezuela's collapsing oil industry as the fishermen who scratch out an existence...

Business

The Rufous hummingbird, shown here, is a common summer resident in western Washington, the eastern Cascades and northeast corner of the state. It is will lose most of its summer range if climate changes continues at its current pace, according to an Audubon report released Thursday, OCt. 10, 2019.

October 10, 2019 at 5:40 pm

Washington bird species could face population declines, sharp reductions in range if climate change trajectory continues, study finds

The Audubon study looks at the fate of birds in a world where temperatures have climbed by 3 degrees Celsius by century's end.

Local News

October 10, 2019 at 6:59 am

Climate change activist climbs on plane, others stop traffic VIEW

LONDON (AP) — Protesters in New York City brought traffic to a standstill in the city's busiest hub and an activist in London climbed atop...

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