Pollution

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Environment

Electric floatplanes could help sink two big pollution problems

The zero-emission planes can't fly far, but they could help sink two big air-pollution problems.
John Ryan
Environment

Seattle’s carbon emissions keep rising, and city keeps calling itself a climate leader

Seattleites did 2.5 percent more harm to the climate in 2016 than they did in 2014, according to the city’s most comprehensive measure of greenhouse gas emissions.
John Ryan
Environment

A journalist on the wild business schemes to avoid climate change catastrophe

The threat of warmer temperatures is pushing entrepreneurs to come up with more schemes.
Ross Reynolds

Alison Bruzek
Environment

Carbon problem gets worse in WA — despite 'climate hawk' governor

Gov. Jay Inslee has made fighting climate change a priority throughout his career and his positioning himself as a climate-driven candidate for president.
John Ryan
Business

What's Amazon's climate change plan?

A group of Amazon stakeholders is calling on the company to be bolder on climate change.
Paige Browning
Environment

He was a veteran with four months to live. This is how he restored Hamm Creek

If you knew that you only had four months to live, what would you do? After suffering three heart attacks, John Beal was told that he was going to die. He decided to use the rest of his life to clean up Hamm Creek, an offshoot of the Duwamish River so polluted the water was yellow. That decision changed the course of John's life and transformed Hamm Creek.
Will Rasmussen
Environment

Don't eat these oysters! They're for trapping pollutants
Ruby de Luna
Food

Microplastics Are Turning Up Everywhere, Even In Human Excrement

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it's not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.
Jill Neimark
Environment

Debate: Should you vote for a carbon fee?

This year, voters will decide whether or not to instate a first-in-the-nation fee on carbon emissions in the state. We invited groups for and against the ballot measure to talk about why they support and oppose I-1631.
Bill Radke

Alison Bruzek

John Ryan
Environment

Toxic PCBs threaten orcas around the world

Killer whales can be found around the world, and more than half of those populations are threatened by toxic chemicals called PCBs, according to a new study in the journal Science.
John Ryan

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