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. 

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.

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

A new study is attempting to link salmon exposure to toxic substances in wastewater, to orca health 

Few insurance plans cover treatment for the condition, which can be fatal. Bipartsian legislation co-sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell seeks to change that.

The secret weapons: suction cups. 

As more Western communities encounter new diseases like Valley fever, Washington health leaders grapple with how to report risks without creating panic.

To learn how antibiotic-resistant bacteria jump from wildlife to livestock to pets to humans, researchers are collecting samples from a wide range of species — including those in the ocean.

A new series of maps is driving home that as things stand, some people may not have enough time to evacuate a Cascadia tsunami. 

On the edge of the North Cascades, fear dominated the conversation as hundreds gathered this week to debate grizzly bear reintroduction.

After decades of court cases have rebuffed federal management, it may take a political fix to restore salmon in the Columbia Basin.

For 12 years, UW's Julian Olden has studied the native and invasive crayfish populations of Sammamish's Pine Lake. But the citizen scientists who live onshore are his secret weapon.

Physicists at Hanford's LIGO observatory have been watching black holes for years. But a recent discovery of an unseen black hole collision is an astronomical first.