Bellingham Bay

Lavender attracts various pollinators around Seattle.

Activists protest offshore oil exploration in the Arctic beside a Shell drilling rig.

Cleaning up toxic waste. Protecting Puget Sound. Dealing with polluted rainwater runoff.  All hang in the balance as the Democratic-dominated House and Republican-controlled Senate face a Thursday...

Urban areas around the Puget Sound region can be tough neighborhoods for wildlife like this heron.

Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge looks out on Mount Adams.

A blue heron along the Duwamish River in Seattle, where money for community participation in the cleanup is at risk.

Mount St. Helens in 2014. Before the 1980 blast, the volcano was famed for its cone-shaped top visible in Seattle.

“Sometimes they’ll ‘hang out’ with each other for an hour,” says the Seattle Aquarium’s Tim Carpenter. “Sometimes it’s 12 hours.”

Lawmakers are looking at how to protect0 children from the chemicals in some flame retardants widely used in furniture.

A tanker on Puget Sound (2009): A significant amount of oil shipping has moved to barges.

Washington’s plan to fight climate change relies heavily on a little-known state agency with a handful of employees that is under attack in the 2016 legislative session by development industry...

Stung by the defeat last year of their efforts to pass legislation to fight climate change, environmentalists this year are back on their heels and bracing to fight off attacks on state policies...