Environment
Should WA’s foresters harvest timber or sell it for carbon credits?
Small farmers and policy makers work to balance the environment and timber jobs as the emphasis shifts to preserving trees for carbon sequestration.
Ashli Blow
Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal
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King County’s landfill is scrambling to solve its methane problem
Cedar Hills in Maple Valley is ranked among the top 50 methane-producing landfills in the country. But new science and policy breakthroughs could help.
Environment
Are WA forests worth more as carbon sponges or timber harvests?
‘Working forests’ like state-run Tiger Mountain retain greenhouse gases — but logging is deeply entrenched in Northwest economies.
Environment
Washington’s first carbon auction sold pollution for $300 million
Under the Climate Commitment Act, the money will go toward funding climate solutions and investing in communities that face environmental injustice.
Environment
Rainier's largest glacier is melting. Here's what that means downstream
Scientists are studying the evolution of Emmons Glacier and its implications on watersheds throughout the Pacific Northwest.