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Washington needs YOU to fight the green crab invasion: Today So Far

Seattle hasn't had a new affordable housing apartment tower in 50 years ... until now.
Dyer Oxley
Environment

As Seattle loses tree canopy, a city council bill may let developers cut down more

Developers and density advocates scored a potential victory from the Seattle City Council on Thursday. The council's Land Use Committee voted 4-1 to guarantee developers' rights to remove trees on lots slated for higher density development.
Amy Radil
Week in Review: Governor Inslee won't seek re-election, pollution, and housing

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Insider’s Katherine Long, freelance journalist Joanne Silberner, and KUOW’s Joshua McNichols.
Bill Radke

Kevin Kniestedt
Environment

These Seattle 4th graders planted trees to bring green to their barren playground

The Seattle City Council is considering updates to its current tree regulations this month. One goal is to bring more trees to areas that lack them. Mayor Harrell’s proposal includes a “fee-in-lieu” program that would require people to pay into a tree-planting fund when they cut down trees on their property.
Amy Radil
Environment

Volunteers needed to defend Washington against the green crab invasion

The Washington Sea Grant is teaming up with Washington State University Extension to counter the rapid increase in the number of green crabs populating Puget Sound.
KUOW Staff
Retired Alaska Airlines turboprop to get new life as 'world's largest' hydrogen-powered plane

Alaska Airlines ceremonially handed over a surplus turboprop airliner on Monday to a company that aims to turn it into the largest hydrogen-powered plane yet to fly.
Tom Banse
Federal regulators want public input on Goldendale Energy Storage Project

A major new energy storage facility for the Northwest is one step closer to being built, with federal regulators releasing new documents outlining some of the impacts of the Goldendale Energy Storage Project in south-central Washington – including likely damage to sacred Indigenous sites.
Courtney Flatt
Environment

Warm, cold, and warm. The Western Washington weather ahead

After an unusually cold spring thus far, Western Washington is expected to see high temperatures in the 70s on Friday and Saturday.
Katie Campbell

Angela King
Environment

Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 1

In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python is an invasive species that's close to triggering an ecological collapse. But not if these python hunters have anything to do with it.
Chris Morgan

Lucy Soucek
Arts & Life

Poet Tanya Holtland laments the toll of environmental apathy

In her Ballard-based poem "Golden Gardens," Tanya Holtland contemplates environmental pollution and its impacts on non-human species and future generations.
Shin Yu Pai

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