It's been an incredible year in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. These stories started conversation, change, and awareness.

Refuting fast fashion, a Seattle artist stitches new looks from old clothes.

Climate models predict the Northwest will receive more annual precipitation, but less of it will fall as snow. That jeopardizes fish and farms during dry summer months. 

The region is poised to lead the way in electric flight thanks to an ambitious partnership between MagniX and Harbour Air.

With Washington's natural kelp beds declining, farms could fill an ecological niche and serve an emergent market. But barriers to entry remain high. 

Facing climate upheaval on Washington's coast, members of the Quinault tribe take to the sea in the canoes of their ancestors.

Mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and West Nile lack vaccines. But Washington scientists think insulin could weaken these diseases in mosquitoes before they reach people.

A win could mean more aggressive action to avoid climate disaster. Some environmental leaders think the lawsuit is a distraction from the action Jay Inslee and Kate Brown are pushing for.

In Kalama, the promise of jobs and the peril of greenhouse gas emissions are keeping neighbors divided over a proposed methanol plant to be built along the Columbia.

Though tribal lands are more likely to suffer from natural disasters, federal aid for the vulnerable lags behind.