KUOW Newsroom Pizza-sized predators to get federal protection The world’s fastest sea star could get a little boost from the U.S. government.
Deadly flu hits Washington birds Wildlife officials have found hundreds of dead snow geese around Washington’s Skagit Bay, suspected victims of highly pathogenic avian influenza: bird flu.
A 3.5-million-pound problem: More than a million chickens near Pasco have bird flu More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County, Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu. Officials are now deliberating on how to transport, bury, compost or incinerate the birds.
Soundside As avian influenza outbreak worsens, local farms remain cautious Washington lies along a major flyway for birds. Each winter, millions of migrating birds stop in in the state on their way somewhere else. That's a cause for concern as the United States experiences the worst avian influenza outbreak in its history, with more than 50 million birds dying from the virus.
KUOW Newsroom The case of the dying newts: an Olympic Peninsula mystery I can’t tell you where I interviewed Max Lambert, but I can tell you what we saw. It wasn’t pretty.
KUOW Newsroom 'Yogurt for bats': A new way to fight a deadly pandemic Washington scientists hope a strange new concoction can save these creatures of the night from their mortal enemy. They call it “yogurt for bats.”
KUOW Newsroom Lessons from the last time Seattle let its pandemic guard down, in 1918 We'll take a look back now to more than a century ago on the dangers of letting our guard down over the holidays. During the 1918 flu pandemic, Seattle put in place some tight restrictions on masking and gathering. The decisions that followed were catastrophic. So writes Knute Birger, Editor-at-large for Crosscut.
Week In Review Quarantines and phoning in votes this week Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Erica C Barnett of The C is for Crank, Crosscut reporter David Kroman, and Crosscut audience engagement manager Mohammed Kloub.
Another measles outbreak spreads, this time in Seattle area A seventh person was diagnosed with measles on Tuesday.
