Lynda Mapes

The challenges facing the Northwest all are exacerbated by the region’s new energy hog: data centers.

U.S. Forest Service releases its plan to protect old trees from fire, pests and logging.

A record sockeye run is making its way upstream through Columbia River dams, but now hot water could stop the fish from reaching their home spawning grounds.

Already highly valued as nurseries for sea life, researchers have discovered a new eelgrass superpower, as living systems that reduce human pathogens in seafood.

Hotel workers walked off the job Sunday at three Seattle-area hotels as part of a nationwide strike for better wages and to protect against staffing and service cuts.

Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. Things changed just in time.

The new orca is just days old and is born to a population of orcas struggling to gain numbers after years of decline.

For more than a century, cutting state-owned forests has been a way of doing business in Washington. But in an era of climate warming — and growing climate activism — there is a new fight.

Logging skills are often passed down generation to generation. These loggers say they love what they do, and they do it with pride.

Dan Friday, the Lummi artist who made three works for Seattle Aquarium's new Ocean Pavilion, said they were inspired by his ancestors, his culture, and by place.