The high-pitched squeak came from the boulder field up the hill. Rocks the size of my kitchen stove covered the slope for more than a hundred feet up and across. Conifers surrounded the opening, a...

When the Trump administration announced its plans to open up the entire Washington coast, including the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, to oil exploration, I was pissed off.

Here's a rundown of key environmental issues expected to be argued and voted on by the end of the legislative session.

If you could ask an astronaut one question, what would you ask? Here’s what a few middle school students came up with.

The Trump administration announced a new plan last week that would allow offshore oil and gas drilling in the ocean off the West Coast for the first time since 1984

In Washington’s Whatcom County, farmers have much to say about the urban-rural divide. 

In 2015,The EPA discovered that Volkswagen engineers designed diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests. Washington must figure out how to spend its settlement.

Who knows whether state Sen. Doug Ericksen — a GOP leader against Democratic environmental measures, especially those by Gov. Jay Inslee — will eventually take a job with President Donald Trump's EPA?

A team of U.S. and Canadian scientists are researching whether enforcing vessel speed limits could buy the whales more time.

"We're finding that with increased disturbance at our sites — so increased fire severity — we get higher abundance of bees," says one researcher.

During the past year Crosscut’s staff photographer Matt M. McKnight and our team of freelance photographers bore witness to many of the news events that shape our city and region.

The crushed train car sat on a flatbed truck on Interstate 5 outside of DuPont, Washington. Positioned upside down, gashes down the side as if mauled by a bear, the car was perched high enough that...

The Trump administration is suspending efforts to bolster the grizzly bear population in Washington's North Cascades. That would leave this part of the mountain range with fewer than ten of the...

Derelict floats and other fisher gear make up some of the most visible marine debris dotting Pacific Northwest shorelines.

A band of raccoons scamper over a downed tree. A coyote sneaks a drink from a mossy pool. The black and white photos that flash across Professor Mark Jordan’s computer screen look like they could have...