environment

The increasing fire risk tied to abnormally warm and dry weather conditions is igniting concerns statewide, including in Clallam County and Sequim.

Typically, the fire season for Clallam County is from July through the end of September, but “all bets are off this year” as the season is…

Two activists spent about six hours Friday suspended from the anchor chain of a Royal Dutch Shell support ship docked in Bellingham to protest the petroleum giant’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean.
The protesters sitting in cloth slings attached themselves around 3:30 a…

Students, faculty and staff have once again urged the Western Washington University Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies.

More than 350 Western employees signed a letter in support of a student-led divestment campaign that is now in its third year.

When Mike Stoner first toured the Port of Bellingham’s properties 20 years ago, he started to make a mental list of contaminated sites that needed work.

It was 1995, and he had just been hired as the port’s environmental director. Before that, he’d been working…

The Rio Grande is disappearing. Slowly but surely, less and less water is flowing from the snow peaks of Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. Just shy of a year ago, Colin McDonald travelled along the Rio Grande to learn more about the damages being done to this majestic river.

"The world…

One day after the Western Associated Students Board voted in favor of the Students for Renewable Energy’s [SRE] fossil fuel divestment resolution, a group of 20 faculty, staff and students attempted to deliver a letter to Bruce Shepard asking the university and the Western Foundation to divest…