Environment

Jeanette Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn't immediately recognize the shriveled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or others that were sunburned during the long, hot summer. But a fellow student at a week long tribal climate camp does.

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is advancing road improvements and fish habitat restoration in Western Washington.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee's office says it's confident our state will generate 100% clean energy by 2045 - which is required by the Clean Energy Transformation Act from 2019.

Fish culverts have long been a problem in this area. Whether it's poor design or infrastructure at the end of its lifespan, culverts have been linked to massive decline in fish populations, including a number of endangered salmon species.

A Montana judge has sided with young environmental activists who said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by permitting fossil fuel development without considering its effect on the climate.

The push to return Tokitae, a captive orca, to the Pacific Northwest is gaining momentum – but roadblocks loom. The man bankrolling her transport teased a date of as early as Thanksgiving, but state officials don't see that happening until 2024 or 2025.

The Makah, a tribal nation on the Olympic Peninsula, have been waiting nearly two decades to learn whether they’ll get the go-ahead from the federal government to resume their practice of whaling.

Researchers have found that female orcas protect their sons -- but not their daughters -- in their later years. What the findings tell scientists studying the endangered Southern Resident orcas.

Washington is the number one producer for sweet cherries nationwide, but last year's cold and wet spring severely depleted production, making it one of the smallest harvests in the last decade.

A showdown above ground began Friday when a Seattle activist climbed up a tree in an effort to keep the cedar known as "Luma" from being cut down.

The National Parks Service (NPS) has issued an emergency closure of recreational fishing in the Quillayute River System in the Olympic National Park to protect salmon populations.

Indianapolis Colts owner and philanthropist Jim Irsay is personally funding efforts to bring Tokitae back home to the Puget Sound, and said she could be back in her ancestral waters by Thanksgiving.