Teams throughout the region provide a critical service for outdoor adventurers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It all started in Seattle.

A reporter reflects on the disappearing hallmarks of the region’s natural spaces.

For years, backers of the Pebble Mine above Bristol Bay seemed to be grinding ahead. Alaska Natives in the region have thrown new sand in those gears.

A local movement to help people empathize with animals is changing the way zoos around the country do their work.

Is it still ethical to ski and hike? How is raising a kid to love the outdoors changing? The director of the UW Climate Impacts Group talks us through those questions.

A hodgepodge of utilities run the West’s electrical grid. Will billions in federal funding help them get along?

How a chat in a Portland pub led to a trek to the tip of South America to find the southernmost tree.

Without these buzzy pollinators, the food on our plates could look — and taste — a lot different.

Native chefs, educators and nutritionists are showing that environmental justice and food justice are inextricably linked.

Chefs, educadores y nutricionistas nativos demuestran los vínculos inextricables entre justicia ambiental y justicia alimentaria.

Climatologists, entomologists and public health experts worry our sunny, mostly bugless summers in the PNW could soon be a thing of the past.

Two bottom-feeding species could be extinct within a decade and their disappearance may signal bigger environmental problems.

Climate change is a global problem, but its impacts vary by location. To meet the needs of the Puget Sound region, we need our own center for research.