An oil train in Alaska.

A baby orca and its mother in Haro Strait, near San Juan Island.

Lake Ingalls is a popular destination in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.

Salmon move through a fish ladder on a Washington dam.

By now you may have seen November’s big biotech news: The Food and Drug Administration has approved the AquAdvantage salmon, a genetically modified Atlantic salmon that contains growth-promoting genes...

In July 2015, some U.S. Air Force personnel were hiking about eight miles up North Fork Chewelah Creek, in northeastern Washington, when they found the chewed-up remains of a cow.

Empty coal cars flank Bakken Oil tankers at the Port of Everett. Existing train traffic for both oil and coal could grow.

A farm field near Yakima, where irrigation is often critical

A sailboat on Puget Sound on a mid-60s winter afternoon.

Attorney Andrea Rodgers, right, with some of the plaintiffs in a climate lawsuit before a meeting earlier this year with Gov. Jay Inslee.

Nooksack River in Whatcom County. The Nooksack watershed contains high levels of fecal matter contamination from agricultural sources.