All the dirt in the Naches River was too much for the City of Yakima’s water treatment plant to handle. Desert cities and towns could see situations like this happen more often as the climate continues to change.
We asked Pete Smith from the Arbor Day Foundation to give us some guidance on how to select trees to plant in the Seattle area that have a good chance of surviving the next 50 or 100 years.
The swell of crypto mining interest in the Pacific Northwest was driven by some of the cheapest hydropower in the U.S. produced by the Grand Coulee and other dams, but environmental regulations around crypto mining have remained relatively sparse.
The 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, which killed hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada, was a harbinger of a new generation of climate disasters to come, a new study finds.
According to their findings, wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are likely to cause surges in pollution levels across all of North America. As a result, this can increase the risk for several pollution-related health complications.
The push to restart the Pacific Northwest’s last remaining aluminum smelter got a boost this week. It also absorbed a setback as officials debate the value of domestic production and how to allocate the region’s finite, low-cost hydropower.
