Environment Podcast | How a wayward whale foretold decades of exploitation People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 14, 2023
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: The ancient bison hunters of the San Juans The discovery of 14,000-year-old bones on Orcas Island means humans were BBQing a lot earlier than previously thought. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / January 8, 2021
Environment When Seattle cared more about coal than climate change Today we fight it, but generations ago the city thrived on it. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / March 5, 2019
Environment Standing up for salmon in Alaska's boundary waters In southeast Alaska, tribes on both sides of the border unite in opposition to a Canadian mine that threatens ancestral fish runs. by Samantha Larson / November 21, 2018
Environment The impermanence of wonder and whales A lifelong visitor to the San Juan Islands reflects on the southern resident orcas, changing ecosystems and the passage of time. by Samantha Larson / October 29, 2018
Environment An out-of-this world Q&A: middle schoolers chat with astronauts If you could ask an astronaut one question, what would you ask? Here’s what a few middle school students came up with. by Stephen Hegg / January 13, 2018
Tech A new, safer way to monitor the warming oceans Zhongxiang Zhao, an applied physicist at the University of Washington by Samantha Larson / January 8, 2017
Environment Major coal train lawsuit settled by environmental groups, BNSF An uncovered coal train owned by BNSF. by Samantha Larson / November 15, 2016